Promicroceras

Promicroceras is an extinct ammonite genus from the upper Sinemurian (Lower Jurassic) of Europe, named by Leonard Spath in 1925. Promicroceras is included in the family Eoderoceratidae, which is part of the ammonitid superfamily Eoderoceratoidea.

Promicroceras
Temporal range:
Promicroceras pyritosum
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Ammonitida
Family: Eoderoceratidae
Subfamily: Eoderoceratinae
Genus: Promicroceras
Spath, 1925
Species
  • P. capricornoides
  • P. cowapi
  • P. marstonense
  • P. planicosta
  • P. precompressum
  • P. pyritosum

Shells are evolute with an open umbilicus; strongly ribbed, ribs flattened on the venter, and with small spines without distinct tubercles.

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