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Genus: | †Ophiceras Griesbach, 1880
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Ophiceras is an extinct genus of smooth, evolute ceratitid ammonites from the Griesbachian (Early Triassic), with a rounded venter. Fossils of the genus have been found in Armenia, Azerbaijan, China, Greenland, and India.[1]