Asthenoceras

Genus of molluscs (fossil) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Asthenoceras is a genus of ammonoid from the Middle Jurassic (Lower Bajocian) with dwarfish, evolute, smooth, compressed, discoidal, strongly keeled shell. Asthenoceras belongs to the Sonniniidae and may be a subgenus of the Lower Jurassic (Upper Toarcian) Grammoceras.

Phylum:Mollusca
Subclass:Ammonoidea
Order:Ammonitida
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Asthenoceras
Temporal range: Bajocian[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Ammonitida
Family: Sonniniidae
Subfamily: Witchelliinae
Genus: Asthenoceras
Buckman, 1899
Species[2]
  • A. nannodes Westermann, 1969
  • A. delicatum
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