Epaspidoceras
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| Epaspidoceras Temporal range: | |
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| Fossil shell of Epaspidoceras lusitanicum, from Charente-Maritime. Specimen showing the aptychus, on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée, Paris | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Subclass: | †Ammonoidea |
| Order: | †Ammonitida |
| Family: | †Aspidoceratidae |
| Genus: | †Epaspidoceras Spath, 1931 |
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None cataloged | |
Epaspidoceras is an extinct ammonoid cephalopod genus belonging to the order Ammonitida, family Aspidoceratidae. These cephalopods were fast-moving nektonic carnivores. They lived during the Jurassic (Kimmeridgian).
