Ostlingoceras Temporal range: Cretaceous |
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Fossil internal model of Ostlingoceras puzosianum from Cretaceous of France | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Cephalopoda |
Order: | Ammonitida |
Superfamily: | Turrilitoidea |
Family: | Turrilitidae |
Genus: |
Ostlingoceras Hyatt 1900 |
Ostlingoceras is an extinct genus of ammonites belonging to the Turrilitidae family.
Fossils of Ostlingoceras are found in marine strata of the Cretaceous (age range: from 99.7 to 94.3 million years ago.). Fossils are known from some localities in Angola, France, Italy, Madagascar, Mozambique, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and United States.