Phylloceras serum Temporal range: [1]
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Fossil shells of Phylloceras serum from Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Cephalopoda |
Subclass: | † Ammonoidea |
Order: | † Ammonitida |
Family: | † Phylloceratidae |
Genus: | † Phylloceras |
Species: | †P. serum
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Binomial name | |
†Phylloceras serum Oppel 1865
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Phylloceras serum is an extinct species of ammonoid cephalopods belonging to the family Phylloceratidae. These nektonic carnivores lived from Early Jurassic to Late Cretaceous (from 150,8 to 125.45 Ma). [1]
Fossils of species within this genus have been found in the Cretaceous of Austria, Mexico, Morocco, Poland, South Africa, Ukraine and in the Jurassic of Hungary and Italy. [1]