Cardioceras

{{Short description|Genus of molluscs (fossil)}}

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| fossil_range = Jurassic, {{Fossilrange|161.2|155.7}}{{cite web | title= Paleobiology Database - Cardioceras |author-link =| year = | url = https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=14673| access-date = 2017-10-19 }}

| image = Cardioceratidae - Cardioceras persecans.JPG

| image_caption = Fossil of Cardioceras persecans from France, on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris

| taxon = Cardioceras

| authority = Neumayr & Uhlig, 1881

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Cardioceras is an extinct ammonite genus belonging to the family Cardioceratidae. These fast-moving nektonic carnivores lived during the Jurassic period, Oxfordian age.{{cite journal|last=Sepkoski |first=Jack |title=A compendium of fossil marine animal genera (Cephalopoda entry) | journal=Bulletins of American Paleontology |volume=363 |pages=1–560 | year=2002 | url=http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=231&rank=class |accessdate=2017-10-18 |url-status=dead | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080507014300/http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=231&rank=class | archivedate=2008-05-07 }}[http://www.helsinki.fi/~mhaaramo/metazoa/protostoma/mollusca/cephalopoda/ammonoidea/ammonitida.html Mikko's Phylogeny Archive]