Acantholytoceras
| Acantholytoceras Temporal range: | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Subclass: | †Ammonoidea |
| Order: | †Ammonitida |
| Suborder: | †Ancyloceratina |
| Family: | †Crioceratitidae |
| Genus: | †Acantholytoceras Spath, 1923 |
| Type species | |
| Acantholytoceras longispinum (Uhlig, 1883) | |
Acantholytoceras is an extinct genus of ammonite that belongs to the family Crioceratitidae. It lived during the Cretaceous period across Europe in places such as Spain, France and Serbia. [1][2]
Taxonomy
Species
As of May 2026, this genus contains four described species. They are listed below:[3][4]
- Acantholytoceras longispinum (Uhlig, 1883)
- Acantholytoceras subcirculare Avram 2002
- Acantholytoceras tenuicostatum (Thomel, 1965)
- Acantholytoceras thomeli Delanoy et al. 2024
References
- 1 2 "Fossilworks: Acantholytoceras". fossilworks.org. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
- ↑ "PBDB". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 2019-03-11.
- ↑ Delanoy, Gerard & Baudouin, Cyril & Agostini, Gilles. (2024). Données nouvelles sur Acantholytoceras longispinum (Uhlig, 1883) et sur le genre Acantholytoceras Spath, 1923 (Ammonoidea, Ptychoceratoidea). 1-15.
- ↑ "Acantholytoceras". The Octopus News Magazine Online. Retrieved 2019-03-11.