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Zetoceras

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Cephalopoda

Order
  
†Ammonitida

Rank
  
Genus

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Subclass
  
†Ammonoidea

Family
  
†Phylloceratidae

Similar
  
Ammonites, Rhacophyllites, Fuciniceras, Tragophylloceras, Phylloceras

Zetoceras is an extinct ammonoid cephalopod genus from the suborder Phylloceratina that lived during the Early and Middle Jurassic in what is now Europe, and is included in the (family) Phylloceratidae.

Zetoceras has a compressed involute shell with a very small umbilicus. The suture is phylloid, as for the suborder,with tall primary sutural elements. Saddles commonly have tetraphyllic endings. Zetoceras is considered by some (Wright et al 1996) to be a sugenus of Phylloceras. The two are very similar except that the saddle endings in Phylloceras split in three rather than in four as in Zetoceras.

References

Zetoceras Wikipedia