Pachydesmoceras
{{Short description|Genus of molluscs (fossil)}}
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| fossil_range = Cretaceous
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| image_caption = Pachydesmoceras sp., upper Cretaceous (Turonian), from Madagascar
| taxon = Pachydesmoceras
| authority = Spath, 1922
| subdivision_ranks = Species
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Pachydesmoceras is a genus of ammonites belonging to the family Desmoceratidae.
Species of this genus were fast-moving nektonic carnivorous shelled cephalopods.
They lived during the Cretaceous, from the Albian (112.0-99.6 Mya) to the Santonian (85.8-83.5 Mya) stage.
Distribution
Cretaceous of Antarctica, Cameroon, India, Japan, Nigeria, Romania, United States (California).
File:Pachydesmoceras pachydiscoide.jpg|Fossil of Pachydesmoceras pachydiscoide from Japan. Exhibit in the National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo, Japan.
See also
References
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- Sepkoski, Jack [http://strata.geology.wisc.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=231&rank=class Sepkoski's Online Genus Database – Cephalopodes] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160225225905/http://strata.geology.wisc.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=231&rank=class |date=2016-02-25 }}
- [https://www.paleodb.org Paleobiology Database]
- Adrian Kin [https://independent.academia.edu/AdrianKin/Papers/1184523/First_record_of_the_puzosiine_ammonite_genus_Pachydesmoceras_from_the_Middle_and_Upper_Turonian_of_Poland First record of the puzosiine ammonite genus Pachydesmoceras from the Middle and Upper Turonian of Poland]
- Tatsuro Matsumoto [http://biostor.org/cache/pdf/a8/46/e4/a846e4a45d09735a91bd114073e92af4.pdf Note on Pachydesmoceras, a Cretaceous ammonite genus]{{dead link|date=March 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
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Category:Ammonites of North America
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