Aegasteroceras

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Aegasteroceras
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Ammonitida
Family: Arietitidae
Subfamily: Asteroceratinae
Genus: Aegasteroceras
Spath, 1925

Aegasteroceras is an extinct cephalopod genus from the Lower Jurassic belonging to the arietitid subfamily Asteroceratinae. The shell of Aegasteroceras is evolute with curve forward and meet at a broad low ventral keel.[1] Aegasteroceras, named by Spath, 1925, has been found in the Sinemurian (Lower Jurassic) of England.[1]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b W.J. Arkell et al. 1957. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. (L240)