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Cranocephalites

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Cephalopoda

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Mollusca

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Stephanocerataceae

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Cranocephalites is a Middle Jurassic ammonitid genus named by Spath in 1932 and included in the family Cranoceratidae, superfamily Stephanoceratacea.

Cranocephalites, sometimes considered a subgenus of Arctocephalites which has sharply ribbed inner whorls and a smooth outer whorl, has a constricted eccentric body chamber. It is found in middle Jurassic sediments in Alaska, Greenland, Novaya-Zemlya, and eastern Siberia.

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Cranocephalites Wikipedia


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