Anagaudryceras

{{Short description|Extinct genus of ammonites}}

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| fossil_range = Albian - Maastrichtian

| image = Anagaudryceras limatum and Damesites sugata.jpg

| image_caption = Anagaudryceras limatum (center)

| taxon = Anagaudryceras

| authority = Shimizu, 1934

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = See text

}}

Anagaudryceras is an extinct genus of ammonite from the later Cretaceous belonging to the Ammonoidea family Gaudryceratidae. Anagaudryceras has a moderately involute shell with a deep umbilicus and strongly ribbed outer whorl. Ribs are thick and rounded and cross over the venter uninterrupted.

References

  • {{cite book| first1=W.J. |last1=Arkell |first2=B. |last2=Kummel |first3=C.W. |last3=Wright |series=Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L, Mollusca 4| title=Mesozoic Ammonoidea | publisher=Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press |location=Lawrence, Kansas|year=1957}}
  • Wani, R. 2007. Differential preservation of the Upper Cretaceous ammonoid Anagaudryceras limatum with corrugated shell in central Hokkaido, Japan. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 52 (1) 2007 [http://app.pan.pl/acta52/app52−077.pdf]
  • [https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=14548 The Paleobiology Datase Anagaudriceras entry] accessed 5 April 2012

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Category:Lytoceratina

Category:Ammonites of Europe

Category:Ammonites of Australia

Category:Cretaceous ammonites of North America

Category:Albian genus first appearances

Category:Cenomanian genera

Category:Turonian genera

Category:Coniacian genera

Category:Santonian genera

Category:Campanian genera

Category:Maastrichtian genus extinctions

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