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Acanthoceras

Acanthoceras

Overview

Genus Acanthoceras Neumayr, 1875

Type species: Ammonites rhotomagensis Brongniart in Cuvier and Brongniart, 1822.

PaleoDB taxon number: 14509.

Origin of name: “Greek, akanthos, prickly; for its shell with several rows of nodes” (Cobban et al., 2006, p. 28).

Acanthoceras Species present in the Cretaceous of the Western Interior Seaway