Docidoceras Temporal range: Bajocian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓ | |
---|---|
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Cephalopoda |
Subclass: | †Ammonoidea |
Order: | †Ammonitida |
Family: | †Otoitidae |
Genus: | †Docidoceras Buckman, 1919 |
Species | |
|
Docidoceras is an extinct ammonite genus from the order Ammonitida that lived during the Middle Jurassic. Docidoceras is included in the family Otoitidae which makes up part of the ammonite superfamily Stephanoceratoidea.
Docidoceras has a broad, finely ribbed, evolute shell with a depressed whorl section. The venter, the outer rim, is broadly arched and crossed by the ribs without interruption. The dorsum, on the inner rim of the whorls is broadly impressed.
Distribution
Fossils of Docidoceras have been found in:
- Laberge Group, Yukon, Canada
- Agoudim Formation, Morocco
- Andalusia, Spain
- Inferior Oolite, United Kingdom
- Kialagvik Formation, Alaska, United States
References
- Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera (Cephalopoda entry)". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 363: 1–560. Archived from the original on 2016-02-25. Retrieved 2017-10-18.
- Dietze, V.; et al. (2010). "Rare Middle Jurassic ammonites of the families Erycitidae, Otoitidae and Stephanoceratidae from southern Germany" (PDF). Zitteliana. 50: 71–88. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-16.
- ^ "Paleobiology Database - Docidoceras". Retrieved 17 December 2021.
Bibliography
- Arkell et al., 1957; Ammonitina in the Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L, Ammonoidea; Geological Soc of America and Univ Kansas press.
Taxon identifiers | |
---|---|
Docidoceras |
This Ammonitina-related article is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it. |
This article related to a Jurassic animal is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it. |
- Middle Jurassic ammonites
- Bajocian life
- Middle Jurassic ammonites of Europe
- Jurassic Spain
- Fossils of Spain
- Jurassic United Kingdom
- Fossils of England
- Ammonites of Africa
- Jurassic animals of Africa
- Middle Jurassic Africa
- Jurassic Morocco
- Fossils of Morocco
- Jurassic ammonites of North America
- Jurassic Canada
- Fossils of Canada
- Jurassic United States
- Fossils of the United States
- Ammonitida genera
- Stephanoceratoidea
- Ammonitina stubs
- Jurassic animal stubs