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Eleniceras
Temporal range: Hauterivian

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Eleniceras stevrecensis sp. nov., Lower Hauterivian, Stevrek, (Coll. St. Breskovski) at the Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" Museum of Paleontology and Historical Geology
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Ammonitida
Family: Neocomitidae
Genus: Eleniceras
Breskovski, 1967
Species[1]

Eleniceras is an extinct genusofcephalopods belonging to the Ammonoidea subclass.[2]

Description

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The genus was named after the Bulgarian town of Elena. The holotypeisEleniceras stevrecensis. There are several described speciesofEleniceras, including E. nikolovi, E. stevrecensis, E. tchechitevi, E. transsylvanicum.[3] [4]

Distribution

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This animal lived 140–129 million years ago during the Hauterivian in Europe and Tunisia.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Eleniceras". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 17 June 2023.
  • ^ Breskovski, St. (1967); "Eleniceras - genre nouveau d'ammonites hauterivien" Bull of the Geological Institute, Ser. Paleontology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences XVI: 47-52.
  • ^ Vašíček, Zdeněk (2002);『Lower Cretaceous Ammonoidea in the Podbranč quarry (Pieniny Klippen Belt, Slovakia)』Bulletin of the Czech Geological Survey, Vol. 77, No. 3, 192
  • ^ Wright, C. W. with Callomon, J.H. and Howarth, M.K. (1996), Mollusca 4 Revised , Cretaceous Ammonoidea, vol. 4, in Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L (Roger L. Kaesler et al. eds.), Boulder, Colorado: The Geological Society of America & Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas Press, at 61, 66.

  • Eleniceras tschechitevi sp. nov., Lower Hauterivian, Stevrek, Cr1 470 (Coll. St. Breskovski) at the Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" Museum of Paleontology and Historical Geology
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