Araxoceras Temporal range: Dzhulfian
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Araxoceras latissimum | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Cephalopoda |
Subclass: | †Ammonoidea |
Order: | †Ceratitida |
Family: | †Araxoceratidae |
Subfamily: | †Araxoceratinae |
Genus: | †Araxoceras Ruzhencev, 1959 |
Type species | |
Araxoceras latissimum | |
Species | |
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Araxoceras is an extinct genus of ceratitid ammonites that lived in the Late Permian marine environments of Iran,[1][2] South China[2][3] and Japan.[4] The various species had distinctive, angular-cornered shells.