''Calliphylloceras'' is an
ammonite
Ammonoids are a group of extinct marine mollusc animals in the subclass Ammonoidea of the class Cephalopoda. These molluscs, commonly referred to as ammonites, are more closely related to living coleoids (i.e., octopuses, squid and cuttlefish) ...
belonging to the
Phylloceratidae
Phylloceratidae is the predominant family of the Phylloceratina with some 15 or more genera found in rocks ranging from the Lower Jurassic to the Upper Cretaceous. Members of the Phylloceratidae are characterized by smooth, involute shells with v ...
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Species
Species within this genus include:
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* ''Calliphylloceras alontinum'' (Gemmellaro, 1884)
* ''Calliphylloceras bicicolae''
* ''Calliphylloceras capitanii''
* ''Calliphylloceras demidoffi'' (Rousseau, 1842)
* ''Calliphylloceras disputabile'' (type) Spath, 1927
* ''Calliphylloceras freibrocki'' Imlay, 1953
* ''Calliphylloceras kochi'' (Oppel, 1865)
* ''Calliphylloceras nilssoni''
* ''Calliphylloceras nizinanum''
* ''Calliphylloceras propinquum''
* ''Calliphylloceras seroplicatum''
* ''Calliphylloceras spadae''
* ''Calliphylloceras supraliasicum''
The holotype
A holotype is a single physical example (or illustration) of an organism, known to have been used when the species (or lower-ranked taxon) was formally described. It is either the single such physical example (or illustration) or one of several ...
of ''C disputabile'', the type species, named by Spath in 1927, which came from the Middle Jurassic of Hungary, is based on ''Phylloceras disputabile'' Zittil. ''Neocalliphylloceras'' Bresairie 1936, ''Captianioceras'' Kuvacs 1939 and ''Euphylloceras'' Draughtchitz 1953 are equivalent genera.[
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Description
''Calliphylloceras'' has a smooth, compressed involute shell with a rounded venter and periodic constrictions in the internal mold; surface covered with lirae as in '' Phylloceras''. The first and 2nd lateral saddles are usually triphyllic, others diphyllic.
Distribution
This species has been found in the Cretaceous of Bulgaria, Canada, France, Japan, United States and in the Jurassic of Argentina, Austria, Germany, Hungary, India, Iran, Italy, Japan, Madagascar, the Russian Federation, Spain, Turkey, United States
Bibliography
* Imlay 1960. Early Cretaceous (albian) Ammonites from the Chitina Valley and Talkeetna Mountains, Alaska. US Geological Survey PP 354-D
References
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Jurassic ammonites
Cretaceous ammonites
Ammonites of Europe
Hettangian genus first appearances
Albian genus extinctions
Fossil taxa described in 1927
Phylloceratina