Peroniceras
| Peroniceras Temporal range:
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| Peroniceras tricarinatum, from Březno u Loun, Czech Republic, at the National Museum (Prague) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Subclass: | †Ammonoidea |
| Order: | †Ammonitida |
| Family: | †Collignoniceratidae |
| Subfamily: | †Peroniceratinae |
| Genus: | †Peroniceras de Grossouvre, 1894 |
| Subgenera[2] | |
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Peroniceras is an ammonite (an extinct group of marine mollusc) belonging to the Ammonitida family Collignoniceratidae.
Species of this genus were widespread throughout the world. They were fast-moving nektonic carnivore shelled ammonoids.
Distribution
[edit]Cretaceous of Antarctica, Cameroon, Canada (British Columbia), Denmark, France, India, Mexico, Nigeria, South Africa, United States (California), Venezuela ; Jurassic of Japan [2]
References
[edit]- ^ Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "Sepkoski's Online Genus Database". Retrieved 2014-05-28.
- ^ a b "Paleobiology Database - Peroniceras". Retrieved 17 December 2021.
Further reading
[edit]- John Bernard Reeside The cephalopods of the Eagle sandstone and related formations
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- Ammonitida genera
- Collignoniceratidae
- Cretaceous ammonites
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- Cretaceous Europe
- Ammonites of North America
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- Cretaceous Mexico
- Cretaceous United States
- Ammonites of South America
- Cretaceous Venezuela
- Coniacian genus first appearances
- Santonian genus extinctions
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