Kossmaticeras
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| Kossmaticeras | |
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| Kossmaticeras species from Madagascar | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Subclass: | †Ammonoidea |
| Order: | †Ammonitida |
| Family: | †Kossmaticeratidae |
| Subfamily: | †Kossmaticeratinae |
| Genus: | †Kossmaticeras de Grossouvre, 1901 |
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Kossmaticeras is an extinct ammonoid genus belonging to the desmoceratacean family Kossmaticeratidae. Species in this genus were fast-moving nektonic carnivores.[1] They lived during the Late Cretaceous, from the upper Turonian to the upper Maastrichtian ages.[2] The type species of the genus is K. theobaldianus.[1]
- Kossmaticeras (Karapadites) Collignon, 1954
- Kossmaticeras (Karapadites) besairieri Collignon, 1954
- Kossmaticeras (Karapadites) karapadensis Kossmat, 1897
- Kossmaticeras (Karapadites) madrasinus Stoliczka, 1865
- Kossmaticeras (Karapadites) planissimus Collignon, 1966
- Kossmaticeras (Kossmaticeras) de Grossouvre, 1901
- Kossmaticeras (Kossmaticeras) inornatum Collignon, 1966
- Kossmaticeras (Kossmaticeras) jeletzkyi Collignon, 1965
- Kossmaticeras (Kossmaticeras) jonesi Collignon, 1965
- Kossmaticeras (Kossmaticeras) kilenensis Alsen, 2018
- Kossmaticeras (Kossmaticeras) sakondryense Collignon, 1954
- Kossmaticeras (Kossmaticeras) sparsicostatum Kossmat, 1897
- Kossmaticeras (Kossmaticeras) theobaldianum Stolickza, 1865
- Kossmaticeras (Natalites) Collignon, 1954
- Kossmaticeras (Natalites) africanus van Hoepen, 1920
- Kossmaticeras (Natalites) elegans Kennedy, 1985
- Kossmaticeras (Natalites) similis Spath, 1921
- Kossmaticeras (Natalites) canadense McLearn, 1972
