Heteroceras

Heteroceras is a Lower Cretaceous heteromorph ammonite belonging to the ancyloceratacian family, Heteroceratidae, characterized by a helically coiled juvenile shell at the apex followed by slightly curved adult shaft, with a J-shaped section at the end of it. The shell is ribbed; ribs are concave and oblique on the helix, straight and transverse on the later stages.

Heteroceras
Temporal range: Barremian–Aptian
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Cephalopoda
Subclass:
Ammonoidea
Order:
Ammonitida
Suborder:
Ancyloceratina
Superfamily:
Ancylocerataceae
Family:
Heteroceratidae
Genus:
Heteroceras

D'Orbigny, 1849

Heteroceras has been found in Argentina, Colombia (La Guajira), the Czech Republic, France, Italy, Japan, Madagascar, Serbia and Montenegro, South Africa, Spain, USSR and the United States (Kansas, Wyoming).[1] Related genera are Hemibaculites and Cochidites. The family, Heteroceratidae, is a derivative of the Ancyloceratidae.

References
  1. Heteroceras at Fossilworks.org

Further reading
  • Arkell, et al 1957. Mesozoic Ammonoidea. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L, Ammonoidea. Geological Society of America and Univ. Kansas Press.
  • For illustrations see Genre Heteroceras, Orbigny 1850


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