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Frenguelliceras

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Cephalopoda

Order
  
Ammonitida

Rank
  
Genus

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Subclass
  
Ammonoidea

Superfamily
  
Perisphinctoidea

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Frenguelliceras is an ammonite genus from the Lower Cretaceous included in the perisphinctoid family Neocomitidae named by Leanza in 1945. The type species, F. magister, is from the Valanginian,(Lower Cretaceous), of Argentina.

Frenguelliceras has an evolute, flat sided shell with coarse, simple or widely splayed ribs dividing from the umbilical edge -inner margin of the outer whorl; venter -outer rim- with a smooth groove, bordered by incipiently tuberculate rib endings.

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Frenguelliceras Wikipedia