Arctomercaticeras

Arctomercaticeras is an extinct genus of cephalopod belonging to the Ammonite subclass and the family Hildoceratidae that lived during the Early Jurassic (Toarcian stage) in the Arctic zone of Russia.[2][3]

Arctomercaticeras
Temporal range: Toarcian[1]
Fossil
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Cephalopoda
Subclass:
Ammonoidea
Family:
Hildoceratidae
Subfamily:
Mercaticeratinae
Genus:
Arctomercaticeras

Repin, 1968

References
  1. Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "Sepkoski's Online Genus Database". Retrieved 2014-05-28.
  2. Dagis, A.A., Toarcian ammonites (Dactylioceratidae) from northern Siberia [in Russian], 108 pp., Nauka, Moscow, 1968
  3. V. A. Zakharov, B. N. Shurygin, N. I. Kurushin, S.V. Meledina, and B. L. Nikitenko. A Mesozoic Ocean in the Arctic: paleontological evidence. Russian Geology and Geophysics Vol. 43, No. 2, pp. 143-170, 2002


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