Lewesiceras
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Lewesiceras is a genus of large ammonites belonging to the order Ammonitida and the family Pachydiscidae.
They lived in the late Cretaceous period, in the Cenomanian and Turonian ages, which occurred 99.6-89.3 million years ago. These shelled ammonoids were nektonic, fast-moving and carnivorous.
Fossils distribution
Cretaceous of Armenia, France, Germany, United States (Texas), Uzbekistan.
Species
- Lewesiceras mantelli Wright and Wright, 1951
- Lewesiceras peramplum (Mantell, 1822)
- Lewesiceras wiedmanni Wright & Kennedy, 1984
Gallery
- Lewesiceras peramplum, upper cretaceous, middle Turonian, Dortmund / NW-Germany
- Lewesiceras cornicostatus, from Czech Republic, at the National Museum (Prague)
- Lewesiceras sharpei, from Czech Republic, at the National Museum (Prague)
- 2007-10-01 at the Wayback Machine
- Sepkoski, Jack
- Wittler, F. A. & Roth, R. (2003): Fazies und Fauna der Oberkreidegesteine im Dortmunder Stadtgebiet. I: Temporäre Aufschlüsse imTuron und Unterconiac zwischen 1988 und 2001. Stratigraphie, Fossilführung.- Dortm. Beiträge Landeskde., naturwiss. Mitt. 36/37: 241-340 (, Abb. 6 ff.