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Calliphylloceras

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Family
  
Phylloceratidae

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Order
  
Ammonitida

Suborder
  
Phylloceratina

Subfamily
  
Calliphylloceratinae

Rank
  
Genus

Subclass
  
Ammonites

Similar
  
Ammonites, Phylloceras, Lytoceras, Sowerbyceras, Aspidoceras

Calliphylloceras is an ammonite belonging to the Phylloceratidae that has a smooth, compressed involute shell with a rounded venter and periodic constrictions in the internal mold; surface covered with lirae as in Phylloceras. The first and 2nd lateral saddles are usually triphyllic, others diphyllic.

The holotype of C disputable, the type species, named by Spath,1927, which came from the Middle Jurassic of Hungary, is based on Phylloceras disputable Zittil. Neocalliphylloceras Bresairie 1936, Captianioceras Kuvacs 1939 and Euphylloceras Draughtchitz 1953 are equavalent genera.

Distribution

  • Cretaceous of Canada, France, Japan and the United States
  • Jurassic of Argentina, Austria, Germany, Hungary, India, Iran, Italy, Japan, Madagascar, the Russian Federation, Spain, Turkey, United States
  • References

    Calliphylloceras Wikipedia