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Austrotrachyceras

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Austrotrachyceras
Temporal range: Carnian[1]
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Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Ceratitida
Superfamily: Clydonitaceae
Family: Trachyceratidae
Genus: Austrotrachyceras

Krystyn, 1978
Species [2]

A. obesum

Austrotrachyceras is a genus belonging to the extinct subclass of cephalopods known


as ammonites. Specifically it belongs in the order Ceratitida.

The family to which Austrotrachyceras belongs, the Trachyceratidae, has more or


less involute, highly ornamented shells and ceratitic to ammonitic sutures.

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