Raymondiceras

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

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| fossil_range = {{fossil range|374|366.8|ref=|Famennian}}

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| regnum = Animalia

| phylum = Mollusca

| classis = Cephalopoda

| subclassis = Ammonoidea

| ordo = Goniatitida

| subordo = Tornoceratina

| superfamilia = Dimeroceratoidea

| familia = Cheiloceratidae

| subfamilia = Raymondiceratinae

| genus = Raymondiceras

| genus_authority = Schindewolf, 1934

| subdivision_ranks = Species

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Raymondiceras is genus of ammonoid cephalopod belonging to the Cheiloceratidae family. Species belonging to this genus lived in late Devonian (Famennian).

Species and distribution

  • Raymondiceras inceptum Petersen, 1975: ca 367.6 - 366.9 mya of Western Australia{{cite web |title=Goniat database |url=http://goniat.org/showTax.html?TaxId=tax00000000000000000000000006080 |accessdate=12 October 2015}}
  • Raymondiceras simplex Raymond, 1909: ca 370.0 - 366.8 mya of Montana (USA). This species has been originally assigned to genus Prolobites. This is type species for genus Raymondiceras.Korn D, Klug C (2002) Ammoneae Devonicae. Fossilium Catalogus 138. Backhuys, Leiden

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