Cardioceras

Cardioceras
Temporal range: Jurassic,
Fossil of Cardioceras persecans from France, on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Ammonitida
Family: Cardioceratidae
Genus: Cardioceras
Neumayr & Uhlig, 1881

Cardioceras is an extinct ammonite genus belonging to the family Cardioceratidae. These fast-moving nektonic carnivores lived during the Jurassic period, Oxfordian age.

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