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Phlycticeras sp. Ammonite

Bajocian, Morocco
Jurassic period ( 201.3 -145 million years ago)
The Strigoceratidae is a family in the ammonitid superfamily Haploceratoidea, restricted to the lower Middle Jurassic, Bajocian stage, possibly derived from the Hammitoceratidae. The family was established and named by Buckman in 1924. The shells of the Strigoceratidae are compressed to oxyconic, with a narrow or minute umbilicus and simple or irregularly branched ribbing almost confined to the outer (ventral) half of the whorl sides. The sutures are moderately simple to complex, with a long umbilical lobe bearing a graded series of Auxiliaries.
Kingdom: Animalia
Pylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Order: †Ammonitida
Family: †Strigoceratidae
Genus: †Phlycticeras