Haploceras
{{Short description|Genus of molluscs (fossil)}}
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| fossil_range = {{fossil range|Kimmeridgian|Tithonian|ref={{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 |access-date=2017-10-18 |url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080507014300/http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=231&rank=class | archive-date=2008-05-07 }}}}
| taxon = Haploceras
| authority = Zittel, 1870
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = See text
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Haploceras is a genus of late Upper Jurassic (Kimmeridgian and Tithonian) ammonoid cephalopods and the type for the Haploceratidae, similar to Lissoceras but with a broader whorl section and small blunt lappets and a blunt rostrum; some species with feeble ventral folds on body chamber.
Distribution
Jurassic deposites in North America, Africa, Europe and the mid east.{{cite web | title= Paleobiology Database - Haploceras | url = https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=14963| access-date = 2017-10-19 }}
References
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- Arkell et al., 1957 Mesozoic Ammonoidea, Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology Part L. Geol Society of America and Univ Kansas Press R.C Moore (ed)
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