Eleniceras

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

{{Automatic taxobox

| fossil_range = {{Fossil range|Hauterivian}}Hauterivian

| image = Eleniceras stevrecensis sp. nov., Lower Hauterivian, Stevrek, (Coll. St. Breskovski) at the Sofia University 'St. Kliment Ohridski' Museum of Paleontology and Historical Geology.jpg

| image_caption = Eleniceras stevrecensis sp. nov., Lower Hauterivian, Stevrek, (Coll. St. Breskovski) at the Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" Museum of Paleontology and Historical Geology

|taxon = Eleniceras

|authority = Breskovski, 1967

|subdivision_ranks = Species

|subdivision_ref = {{cite web | title= Eleniceras| url = https://paleobiodb.org/classic/basicTaxonInfo?taxon_no=94766 |publisher= Paleobiology Database | access-date = 17 June 2023}}

|subdivision = *Eleniceras nikolovi

}}

Eleniceras is an extinct genus of cephalopods belonging to the Ammonoidea subclass.{{aut|Breskovski, St.}} (1967); "Eleniceras - genre nouveau d'ammonites hauterivien" Bull of the Geological Institute, Ser. Paleontology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences XVI: 47-52.

Description

The genus was named after the Bulgarian town of Elena. The holotype is Eleniceras stevrecensis. There are several described species of Eleniceras, including E. nikolovi, E. stevrecensis, E. tchechitevi, E. transsylvanicum.[http://www.geology.cz/bulletin/fulltext/3-04-vasicek.pdf {{aut|Vašíček, Zdeněk}} (2002); "Lower Cretaceous Ammonoidea in the Podbranč quarry (Pieniny Klippen Belt, Slovakia)" Bulletin of the Czech Geological Survey, Vol. 77, No. 3, 192]{{aut|Wright, C. W.}} with {{aut|Callomon, J.H.}} and {{aut|Howarth, M.K.}} (1996), Mollusca 4 Revised , Cretaceous Ammonoidea, vol. 4, in Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L (Roger L. Kaesler et al. eds.), Boulder, Colorado: The Geological Society of America & Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas Press, at 61, 66.

Distribution

This animal lived 140–129 million years ago during the Hauterivian in Europe and Tunisia.

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