| Cardioceras | |
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| Fossil of Cardioceras persecans from France, on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Subclass: | †Ammonoidea |
| Order: | †Ammonitida |
| Family: | †Cardioceratidae |
| Genus: | †Cardioceras Neumayr & Uhlig, 1881 |
Cardioceras is an extinct ammonite genus belonging to the family Cardioceratidae. These fast-moving nektonic carnivores lived during the Jurassic period, Oxfordian age.[2][3]
- ^ "Paleobiology Database - Cardioceras". Retrieved 2017-10-19.
- ^ Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera (Cephalopoda entry)". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 363: 1–560. Archived from the original on 2008-05-07. Retrieved 2017-10-18.
- ^ Mikko's Phylogeny Archive