Skirroceras bayleanum
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| Skirroceras bayleanum | |
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| Fossil of Skirroceras bayleanum from United Kingdom, 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: | †Stephanoceratidae |
| Genus: | †Skirroceras |
| Species: | †S. bayleanum |
| Binomial name | |
| †Skirroceras bayleanum (Oppel, 1857) | |
Skirroceras bayleanum is a Stephanoceratacean (ammonite) species belonging to the family Stephanoceratidae.[2]
These fast-moving nektonic carnivores lived during the Jurassic period, in the Bajocian age.[3]
Skirroceras bayleanum has a shell reaching about 10.8 centimetres (4.3 in) of diameter. [4]
