Ancyloceratidae
| Ancyloceratidae Temporal range: Lower Cretaceous
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| Fossil of Ancyloceras from the lower Aptian of the Paris Basin (France), on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Subclass: | †Ammonoidea |
| Order: | †Ammonitida |
| Suborder: | †Ancyloceratina |
| Superfamily: | †Ancyloceratoidea |
| Family: | †Ancyloceratidae Meek, 1876 |
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Ancyloceratidae is a family of heteromorphic ammonites that lived during the Early Cretaceous. Their shells begin as a loose spiral with whorls not touching which then turns into a straight shaft that ends in a J-shape hook or bend at end. Coarse ribbing and spines are common.
Ancyloceratidae is the type family for the Ancyloceratoidea and of the suborder Ancyloceratina. They are found in Lower Cretaceous, Barremian to perhaps Lower Albian sediments.
Genera include:
- Ammonitoceras Dumas, 1876
- Ancyloceras D'Orbigny, 1842 - type genus
- Ancylotropaeum Casey, 1980
- Antarcticoceras Thomson, 1974 [1]
- Audouliceras Thomel, 1965
- Australiceras Whitehouse, 1926
- Caspianites Casey, 1961
- Epancyloceras Spath, 1930
- Epitroapeum Kakabadze, 1977
- Helicancyloceras Klinger & Kennedy, 1977
- Hoheneggericeras Delanoy et al. 2008
- Jaubertites Sarkar, 1955
- Kutatissites Kakabadze, 1970
- Koeneniceras Mikhailova & Baraboshkin, 2002
- Laqueoceras Kakabadze & Hoedemaeker, 2004
- Lithancylus Casey, 1960
- Luppovia Bogdanova et al. 1978
- Proaustraliceras Kakabadze, 1977
- Pseudoancyloceras Stenshin et al., 2014
- Pseudoaustraliceras Kakabadze, 1981
- Pseudocrioceras Spath, 1924
- Sarkariceras Vermeulen, 2006
- Shastoceras Anderson, 1938
- Toxancyloceras Delanoy, 2003
- Tropaeum J. de C. Sowerby, 1837
Ancyloceratidae are derived from the Crioceratidae, a family of Lower Cretaceous ammonites with loosely wound, open planispiral shells, probably originating from within the suborder Lytoceratina.
Notes
[edit]- ^ M.R.A. Thomson, « Ammonite faunas of the Lower Cretaceous of south-eastern Alexander Island », British Antarctic Survey Scientific Reports, No. 80 (1974), p.1-44.
References
[edit]- Arkell, W.J.; Kummel, B.; Wright, C.W. (1957). Mesozoic Ammonoidea. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L, Mollusca 4. Lawrence, Kansas: Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press.
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