Pachyceras
Genus of molluscs (fossil)
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Pachyceras is a genus of perisphinctoid ammonites from the Middle Jurassic, upper Callovian stage, and is the type genus for the family Pachyceratidae. The shell is involute, subglobular, with a deep umbilicus and flattened flanks that slope toward a more narrowly rounded venter, and covered by low, widely spaced ribs.
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| Fossil of Pachyceras lalandeanum from Calvados (France), on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Subclass: | †Ammonoidea |
| Order: | †Ammonitida |
| Family: | †Pachyceratidae |
| Genus: | †Pachyceras Bayle, 1878 |
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Distribution
Jurassic deposits of Egypt, France, India, Saudi Arabia and Switzerland.[2]
