Emericiceras
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''Emericiceras'' is an
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) ...
genus from the
Early Cretaceous The Early Cretaceous ( geochronological name) or the Lower Cretaceous (chronostratigraphic name), is the earlier or lower of the two major divisions of the Cretaceous. It is usually considered to stretch from 145  Ma to 100.5 Ma. Geology Pro ...
belonging to the Ancyloceratoidea. ''Emericiceras'' are considered by some authors a junior synonyms of '' Crioceratites''.


Distribution

Fossils of species within this genus have been found in the
Cretaceous The Cretaceous ( ) is a geological period that lasted from about 145 to 66 million years ago (Mya). It is the third and final period of the Mesozoic Era, as well as the longest. At around 79 million years, it is the longest geological period of th ...
sediments of Antarctica, France, Hungary, Italy, Morocco, Slovakia, South Africa and Spain.


References

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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,--Ancyloceratiaceae; Geological Society of America 1957, reprinted 1990. Cretaceous ammonites Ammonites of Europe {{ammonite-stub