Prionoceras Temporal range:
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Prionoceras divisum | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Cephalopoda |
Subclass: | †Ammonoidea |
Order: | †Goniatitida |
Family: | †Prionoceratidae |
Subfamily: | †Prionoceratinae |
Genus: | †Prionoceras Hyatt, 1883 |
Prionoceras is an extinct genus of ammonites.[1][2] It lived during the Devonian period. Prionoceras divisum is the type specimen from the Fichtel Mountains.[3] Specimens have been found in Algeria, China, Germany, Kazakhstan, Morocco, and Poland.[4][5]
Prionoceras is the most important middle Famennian goniatite genus in the Anti-Atlas of Morocco and the Saoura Valley of Algeria.