Rank Genus Subclass Ammonites | ||
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Similar Ammonites, Lytoceras cornucopia, Lissoceras, Haploceras, Kosmoceras spinosum | ||
Kossmaticeras is an extinct ammonoid genus belonging to the desmoceratacean family Kossmaticeratidae. Species in this genus were fast-moving nektonic carnivores. They lived during the Late Cretaceous, from upper Turonian to upper Maastrichtian age. The type species of the genus is Ammonites theobaldianus.
Distribution
Fossils of species within this genus have been found in the Cretaceous sediments of Antarctica, Australia, Canada, Chile, India, Madagascar, New Zealand and South Africa.
References
Kossmaticeras Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA