Kranaosphinctes
| Kranaosphinctes Temporal range: Upper Jurassic | |
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| Kranaosphinctes species from Madagascar, Oxfordian stage | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Subclass: | Ammonoidea |
| Order: | Ammonitida |
| Superfamily: | Perisphinctoidea |
| Family: | Perisphinctidae |
| Genus: | Kranaosphinctes Buckman, 1921 |
Kranaosphinctes is an extinct genus of ammonites belonging to the Perisphinctidae family. [1] [2]
Some authors consider Kranaosphinctes a subgenus of the genus Perisphinctes. [3]
Fossil record
Fossils of Kranaosphinctes are found in marine strata of the Upper Jurassic (age range: from 161.2 to 155.7 million years ago.). Fossils are known from some localities of Europe, Argentina, India and Madagascar. [3]
References
- ↑ Sepkoski, J.J. Jr. (2002). A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Sepkoski's Online Genus Database Bulletins of American Paleontology 363: 1–560. Ammonite
- ↑ GBIF
- 1 2 Paleobiology Database
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