Algericeras
Encyclopedia
Algericeras is an extinct Ammonite
Ammonitida
The Ammonitida is an order of more highly evolved ammonoid cephalopods from the Jurassic and Cretaceous time periods, commonly with intricate ammonitic sutures....

 genus belonging to the Acathoceratacea that lived during the Cenomanian
Cenomanian
The Cenomanian is, in the ICS' geological timescale the oldest or earliest age of the Late Cretaceous epoch or the lowest stage of the Upper Cretaceous series. An age is a unit of geochronology: it is a unit of time; the stage is a unit in the stratigraphic column deposited during the corresponding...

stage at the beginning of the Late Cretaceous in what is now Mexico.

Algericeras is included in the acathoceratacean family Brancoceratidae and subfamily Mortonoceratinae. Species include Algericeras (Sakondryella) remolinense and Algericeras proratum

References

  • Algericeras-Paleodb
  • W. J. Kennedy and C. W. Wright. 1981. Euhystrichoceras and Algericeras, the Last Mortoniceratine ammonites. Palaeontology 24(2):417-435
The source of this article is wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.  The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.
 
x
OK