Crioceras (cephalopod)

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| name = Crioceras

| fossil_range = {{fossil range|Hauterivian|ref={{cite web

| last = Sepkoski| first = Jack| title= Sepkoski's Online Genus Database|author-link =| year = 2002| url = http://strata.geology.wisc.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=231&rank=class| accessdate = 2014-05-28 }}}}

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| regnum = Animalia

| phylum = Mollusca

| classis = Cephalopoda

| subclassis = †Ammonoidea

| ordo = †Ammonitida

| superfamilia = †Ancylocerataceae

| familia = †Crioceratitidae

| genus = †Crioceras

| genus_authority = d'Orbigny, 1842

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision =

• †Crioceras elegans Koenen, 1902Die ammonitiden des norddeutschen Neocom (Valan ginien, Hauterivien, Barrêmien und Aptien. A von Koenen, 1902
• †Crioceras ramoseptum

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Crioceras is an extinct cephalopod genus belonging to the subclass Ammonoidea and included in the family Crioceratidae of the ammonitid superfamily Ancylocerataceae. Crioceras is considered by some to be a junior synonym of Crioceratites

Crioceras ramoseptum is a heteromorph that comes from the Aptian of Dagestan.Lehmann, U. 1981. The ammonites: Their life and their world. London: Cambridge University Press.