Dipoloceras
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''Dipoloceras'' is a rather evolute, strongly ribbed and well keeled acanthocerataean
ammonite Ammonoids are a group of extinct marine mollusc animals in the subclass Ammonoidea of the class Cephalopoda. These molluscs, commonly referred to as ammonites, are more closely related to living coleoids (i.e., octopuses, squid and cuttlefish) ...
from the Albian stage of the Lower Cretaceous included in the brancoceratid subfamily Mojsisovicziinae. The whorl section is typically inflated or depressed. Ribs are high standing, may be sharp, close to wide spaced. The ventral keel may sit below the level of the ribs. ''Dipoloceras'' is similar to but distinct from '' Oxytropidoceras'' in that ''Oxytropidoceras'' has a compressed whorl section, high standing keel and lower ribs. Both have more or less typical ammonitic sutures.


References

*Arkell ''et a''l, Mesozoic Ammonoidea,
Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology The ''Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology'' (or ''TIP'') published by the Geological Society of America and the University of Kansas Press, is a definitive multi-authored work of some 50 volumes, written by more than 300 paleontologists, and co ...
, Part L (Ammonoidea). Geol Soc of Amer. and Univ Kans press. 1957 *Ryszard Marcinowski and Jost Wiedmann. The Albian Ammonites of Poland. Palaeontologia Polonica no. 50, 1990 *Description of Dipolocera

''see also illustrations of''
''Dipoloceras cristatum'

Ammonitida genera Acanthoceratoidea Cretaceous ammonites {{Ammonitina-stub