Bostrychoceras

Bostrychoceras Temporal range: Campanian[1] PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Cephalopoda
Subclass:	†Ammonoidea
Order:	†Ammonitida
Suborder:	†Ancyloceratina
Family:	†Nostoceratidae
Genus:	†Bostrychoceras Hyatt, 1900
Species[2]
None cataloged

Bostrychoceras is a genus of heteromorph ammonite from the family Nostoceratidae. Fossils have been found in Late Cretaceous sediments in Europe and North America.

The shell of Bostrychoceras begins as a tightly wound helical spire, like that of Nostoceras, from which hangs a U- or J-shaped body chamber, at least in the adult. The shell is covered with dense, strong, but unflared, ribs that are commonly sinuous and oblique. May nor may not have strong constrictions.

Distribution

Cretaceous of Nigeria, Peru, South Africa, Spain and the United States [2]

References

Notes

1. Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "Sepkoski's Online Genus Database". Retrieved 2014-05-28.
2. "Paleobiology Database - Bostrychoceras". Retrieved 17 December 2021.

Bibliography

• Arkell, W.J.; Kummel, B.; Wright, C.W. (1957). Mesozoic Ammonoidea. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L, Mollusca 4. Lawrence, Kansas: Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press.
• Ammonoid Paleobiology (Topics in Geobiology) by Neil H. Landman, Kazushige Tanabe, and Richard Arnold Davis