Eleniceras

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Phylum:Mollusca
Class:Cephalopoda
Subclass:†Ammonoidea
Order:†Ammonitida
Eleniceras
Temporal range: Hauterivian Hauterivian
Eleniceras stevrecensis sp. nov., Lower Hauterivian, Stevrek, (Coll. St. Breskovski) at the Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" Museum of Paleontology and Historical Geology
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: †Ammonoidea
Order: †Ammonitida
Family: †Neocomitidae
Genus: †Eleniceras
Breskovski, 1967
Species[1]

Eleniceras is an extinct genus of cephalopods belonging to the Ammonoidea subclass.[2]

The genus was named after the Bulgarian town of Elena. The holotype is Eleniceras stevrecensis. There are several described species of Eleniceras, including E. nikolovi, E. stevrecensis, E. tchechitevi, E. transsylvanicum.[3][4]

Distribution

This animal lived 140–129 million years ago during the Hauterivian in Europe and Tunisia.

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