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Asthenoceras

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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]
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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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