Gassendiceras
{{Short description|Genus of molluscs (fossil)}}
{{Taxobox
|fossil_range = Early Cretaceous (Barremian), {{fossil range|130.0|125.0}}[http://laboratoire.gpa.pagesperso-orange.fr/Dossiers/Ammonites/Cretace/Barremien/phylums.html#Hemihoplitidae Les Phylums d'ammonites représentés au Barrémien - Hemihoplitidae]
|image = Hemihoplitidae - Gassendiceras alpinum.JPG
|image_caption = Fossil shells of Gassendiceras alpinum from Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris
|regnum = Animalia
|phylum = Mollusca
|classis = Cephalopoda
|subclassis = Ammonoidea
|ordo = Ammonitida
|familia = Hemihoplitidae
|subfamilia = Gassendiceratinae
|genus = Gassendiceras
|genus_authority = Bert, Delanoy & Bersac, 2006
|synonyms =
}}
Gassendiceras is an extinct genus of ammonoid cephalopods belonging to the family Hemihoplitidae. They lived in the Cretaceous period, Barremian age.
Etymology
The genus name Gassendiceras honors the French philosopher and scientist Pierre Gassendi (1592 – 1655).
Species
Description
Distribution
Fossils of species within this genus have been found in the Cretaceous rocks of southeastern France.
References
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- D. Bert, G. Delanoy & S. Bersac, « Descriptions de représentants nouveaux ou peu connus de la famille des Hemihoplitidae Spath, 1924 (Barrémien supérieur, Sud-Est de la France) : conséquences taxinomiques et phylétiques », Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. Nice, vol. 21 (2006), p. 179-253
- Bert, Delanoy & Bersac [http://paleopolis.rediris.es/cg/CG2010_A01/ Problems in the identity of "Crioceras" barremense Kilian, 1895 (Ancyloceratida, Late Barremian), and their proposed resolution]
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