Emericiceras

Emericiceras
Temporal range: Cretaceous, 136.4–112.6 Ma

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Fossil of Emericiceras emericii from Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Ammonitida
Superfamily: Ancylocerataceae
Family: Crioceratitidae
Genus: Emericiceras
Sarka 1954

Emericiceras is an ammonite genus from the Early Cretaceous belonging to the Ancylocerataceae. Emericiceras are considered by some authors a junior synonyms of Crioceratites.

Distribution

Fossils of species within this genus have been found in the Cretaceous sediments of Antarctica, France, Hungary, Italy, Morocco, Slovakia, South Africa and Spain.

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