Lewesiceras
{{Short description|Genus of molluscs (fossil)}}
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| fossil_range = {{Fossilrange|Upper Cretaceous}}
| image = Gasteropods - Ammonites - Lewericeras mantelli.JPG
| image_caption = Lewesiceras mantelli, from Czech Republic, at the National Museum (Prague)
| taxon = Lewesiceras
| authority = Spath, 1939
| synonyms =
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Lewesiceras is a genus of large ammonites belonging to the order Ammonitida and the family Pachydiscidae.
They lived in the late Cretaceous period, in the Cenomanian and Turonian ages, which occurred 99.6-89.3 million years ago. These shelled ammonoids were nektonic, fast-moving and carnivorous.
Fossils distribution
Cretaceous of Armenia, France, Germany, United States (Texas), Uzbekistan.
Species
- Lewesiceras mantelli Wright and Wright, 1951
- Lewesiceras peramplum (Mantell, 1822)
- Lewesiceras wiedmanni Wright & Kennedy, 1984
Gallery
File:Lewesiceras peramplum.jpg|Lewesiceras peramplum, a pachydiscid ammonite from Upper Turonian of Poland
File:Gasteropods - Ammonites - Lewesiceras cornicostatus.JPG|Lewesiceras cornicostatus, from Czech Republic, at the National Museum (Prague)
File:Amonit Lewesiceras.jpg|Lewesiceras sharpei, from Czech Republic, at the National Museum (Prague)
References
- [https://www.biolib.cz/en/taxon/id134167/ Biolib]
- [https://www.paleodb.org The Paleobiology Database]
- Sepkoski, Jack [http://strata.geology.wisc.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=183&rank=phylum Sepkoski's Online Genus Database – Cephalopods]
- [http://www.helsinki.fi/~mhaaramo/metazoa/protostoma/mollusca/cephalopoda/ammonoidea/ammonitida.html Ammonitida]
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