Ostlingoceras Temporal range:
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Fossil internal model of Ostlingoceras puzosianum from Cretaceous of France | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Cephalopoda |
Subclass: | †Ammonoidea |
Order: | †Ammonitida |
Suborder: | †Ancyloceratina |
Family: | †Turrilitidae |
Genus: | †Ostlingoceras Hyatt, 1900 |
Ostlingoceras is an extinct genus of ammonites belonging to the Turrilitidae family.[1]
Fossils of Ostlingoceras are found in marine strata of the Cretaceous (age range: from 99.7 to 94.3 million years ago.). Fossils are known from some localities in Angola, France, Italy, Madagascar, Mozambique, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and United States.[2]