Apoderoceras

Apoderoceras
Temporal range: Pliensbachian[1]
Fossil specimen at Field Museum of Natural History
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: †Ammonoidea
Order: †Ammonitida
Family: †Coeloceratidae
Genus: †Apoderoceras
Buckman, 1921
Species[2]
  • †Apoderoceras antiquum Lóczy, 1915
  • †Apoderoceras dunrobinense Spath, 1926
  • †Apoderoceras ferox Buckman, 1925
  • †Apoderoceras sparsinodum Quenstedt, 1849
  • †Apoderoceras subtriangulare Young and Bird, 1822

Apoderoceras is an extinct genus of cephalopod belonging to the ammonite subclass.

Ammonites (Apoderoceras) were predatory mollusks that resembled a squid with a shell. These cephalopods had eyes, tentacles, and spiral shells. They are more closely related to a living octopus, though the shells resemble that of a nautilus. True ammonites appeared in the fossil record about 240 million years ago. The last lineages disappeared 65 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous.[3]

  1. ^ Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "Sepkoski's Online Genus Database". Retrieved 2014-05-28.
  2. ^ "Apoderoceras". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 29 April 2022.
  3. ^ https://www.fossilera.com/fossils/huge-13-spiny-jurassic-ammonite-apoderoceras-fossil-england