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Dipoloceras

Classification

    Phylum:  
Mollusca
    Class:  
Cephalopoda
    Order:  
Ammonitida
    Superfamily:  
Acanthocerataceae
    Family:  
Brancoceratidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Dipoloceras (Dipoloceras) SPATH, 1931a, p. 350
    Type Species:  
Cechenoceras HOEPEN, 1941, p. 61 (type, C. reversum, OD)


Images

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Fig. 108, 1 a-c .* D. (D.) cristatum (Brongniart in Cuvier & Brongniart), Middle Albian, France, a, b, X, c, X2 (Orbigny, 1840-1842).


Synonyms

Cechenoceras


Geographic Distribution

Europe, Madagascar, Texas


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Lower Cretaceous (Middle Albian)
    Beginning International Stage:  
Albian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
25
    Beginning Date:  
110.03
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Lower Cretaceous (Middle Albian)
    Ending International Stage:  
Albian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
50
    Ending Date:  
106.85


Description

Whorl section round or depressed, umbilical and ventrolateral tubercles absent or insignificant




References



Museum or Author Information

Orbigny, 1840