Asteroceras Temporal range: Late Triassic-Early Jurassic
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Asteroceras fossil from Dorset, England. | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Cephalopoda |
Subclass: | †Ammonoidea |
Order: | †Ammonitida |
Family: | †Arietitidae |
Subfamily: | †Asteroceratinae |
Genus: | †Asteroceras Hyatt, 1867 |
Asteroceras is an extinct genus of cephalopod belonging to the Ammonite subclass. These fast-moving nektonic carnivores lived during the Triassic and Jurassic periods (from 205.6 to 189.6 Ma).[1]