Skirroceras

Skirroceras
Temporal range: Jurassic (Bajocian), [1]
Fossil of Skirroceras bayleanum from United Kingdom, on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: †Ammonoidea
Order: †Ammonitida
Family: †Stephanoceratidae
Genus: †Skirroceras
Mascke, 1907

Skirroceras is a Stephanoceratoidean (ammonite) genus belonging to the family Stephanoceratidae. These fast-swimming carnivores lived during the Jurassic period, in the Bajocian age.[2]

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