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Gaudryceratidae

Gaudryceratidae

Overview

Gaudryceratidae Spath, 1927

Common Name: 

Extant/Extinct

Key morphological features: Shell whorl usually rounded or elliptical. Ornamentation involves fine lines or ridges but is occaisionally smooth. Suture lines have symettrical bifurcated saddles, but may have additional saddles.

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Paleoecology:

        MOBILITY: Mobile (swim)

        FEEDING MODE: Predator

        HABITAT: epifaunal

Family Gaudryceratidae Spath, 1927.

Duration: Barremian to Maastrichtian (Source: Wright et al., 1996).

PaleoDB taxon number: 95369.

Sources:

Wright, C. W., 1996. Ammonoidea, in Kaesler, R. L., ed., Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L, Mollusca 4 Revised, Volume 4. The University of Kansas and Geological Society of America. 362 pp.

Genera of Gaudryceratidae present in the Cretaceous of the Western Interior Seaway