Stephanoceras humphriesianum

Stephanoceras humphriesianum
Temporal range: Middle Jurassic

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Stephanoceras humphriesianum from Germany, on display at the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Ammonitida
Suborder: Ammonitina
Superfamily: Stephanocerataceae
Family: Stephanoceratidae
Genus: Stephanoceras
Species: S. humphriesianum
Binomial name
Stephanoceras humphriesianum
Sowery 1825

Stephanoceras humphriesianum is an extinct species of Stephanoceratacean ammonites. [2]

Illustration of Stephanoceras humphriesianum from Kunstformen der Natur (1904)

Description

Stephanoceras humphriesianum has an evolute shell with well-developed ribbing and tubercles.

Distribution

Fossils of Stephanoceras humphriesianum are found in the Middle Jurassic marine strata of British Columbia, England and Germany.[1][3] The zone of Stephanoceras humphriesianum is an ammonite biozone of the Bajocian age, in the Tethys domain.

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