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Peroniceras

Peroniceras
Temporal range: Coniacian–Santonian
Gasteropods - Ammonites - Peroniceras tricarinatum.JPG
Peroniceras tricarinatum, from Březno u Loun, Czech Republic, at the National Museum (Prague)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Ammonitida
Family: Collignoniceratidae
Genus: Peroniceras
de Grossouvre, 1894
Species
  • P. canaense
  • P. (Zuluiceras)
  • P. (Peroniceras)

Peroniceras is an ammonite belonging to the Ammonitida family Collignoniceratidae.

Species of this genus were widespread throughout the world. They were fast-moving nektonic carnivore shelled ammonoids.

Cretaceous of Antarctica, Cameroon, Canada (British Columbia), Denmark, France, India, Mexico, Nigeria, South Africa, United States (California), Venezuela ; Jurassic of Japan


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