Emericiceras Temporal range: Cretaceous, 136.4–112.6 Ma |
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Fossil of Emericiceras emericii from Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Cephalopoda |
Subclass: | Ammonoidea |
Order: | Ammonitida |
Superfamily: | Ancylocerataceae |
Family: | Crioceratitidae |
Genus: |
Emericiceras Sarka 1954 |
Emericiceras is an ammonite genus from the Early Cretaceous belonging to the Ancylocerataceae. Emericiceras are considered by some authors a junior synonyms of Crioceratites.
Fossils of species within this genus have been found in the Cretaceous sediments of Antarctica, France, Hungary, Italy, Morocco, Slovakia, South Africa and Spain.