''Asthenoceras'' is a genus of ammonoid from the Middle Jurassic (Lower
Bajocian
In the geologic timescale, the Bajocian is an age and stage in the Middle Jurassic. It lasted from approximately 170.9 ±0.8 Ma to around 168.2 ±1.2 Ma (million years ago). The Bajocian Age succeeds the Aalenian Age and precedes the Bathonia ...
) with dwarfish, evolute, smooth, compressed, discoidal, strongly keeled shell. ''Asthenoceras'' belongs to the
Sonniniidae
Sonniniidae is a diverse family of Middle Jurassic ammonites ranging from those with stout evolute shells to those whose shells are sharply rimmed, oxyconic. The keel, which runs along the middle of the venter, is typically hollow. Sutures vary f ...
and may be a subgenus of the Lower Jurassic (Upper
Toarcian
The Toarcian is, in the International Commission on Stratigraphy, ICS' geologic timescale, an age (geology), age and stage (stratigraphy), stage in the Early Jurassic, Early or Lower Jurassic. It spans the time between 184.2 Megaannum, Ma (million ...
) ''
Grammoceras
''Grammoceras'' is an extinct genus of Ammonitida, ammonite found in Yorks Ravenscar, England, from Jurassic period sediments. Its overall distribution is fairly worldwide.
''Grammoceras'' has a thin, discoidally evolute shell with simple, gent ...
''.
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Ammonitida genera
Sonniniidae
Jurassic ammonites
Fossils of Morocco
Bajocian life
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