''Cymatoceras elegans'' is an extinct species of
nautilitacean cephalopods in the family
Cymatoceratidae
The Cymatoceratidae is a family of Mesozoic and early Cenozoic nautiloid cephalopods and the most abundant of their kind in the Cretaceous. They are characterized by ribbed, generally involute shells of varied forms - coiled such that the outer ...
. It is from the Cretaceous of Switzerland and the United Kingdom.
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Prehistoric nautiloids
Fossil taxa described in 1816
Cretaceous cephalopods of Europe
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