Asteroceras, the Glossary
Asteroceras is an extinct genus of cephalopod belonging to the Ammonite subclass.[1]
Table of Contents
11 relations: Ammonoidea, Asteroceras, Asteroceras stellare, Cephalopod, Dorset, Early Jurassic, Jurassic, Late Triassic, Lyme Regis, Sinemurian, Triassic.
- Arietitidae
- Fossil taxa described in 1867
- Sinemurian life
Ammonoidea
Ammonoids are extinct spiral shelled cephalopods comprising the subclass Ammonoidea.
See Asteroceras and Ammonoidea
Asteroceras
Asteroceras is an extinct genus of cephalopod belonging to the Ammonite subclass. Asteroceras and Asteroceras are ammonites of Europe, Ammonitida genera, Ammonitida stubs, Arietitidae, Fossil taxa described in 1867, Jurassic ammonites, Sinemurian life and Triassic ammonites.
See Asteroceras and Asteroceras
Asteroceras stellare
Asteroceras stellare, the true star ammonite, is an extinct species of cephalopod belonging to the Ammonite subclass and to the family Arietitidae. Asteroceras and Asteroceras stellare are Ammonitida stubs, Arietitidae and Jurassic ammonites.
See Asteroceras and Asteroceras stellare
Cephalopod
A cephalopod is any member of the molluscan class Cephalopoda (Greek plural κεφαλόποδες,; "head-feet") such as a squid, octopus, cuttlefish, or nautilus.
See Asteroceras and Cephalopod
Dorset
Dorset (archaically: Dorsetshire) is a ceremonial county in South West England.
Early Jurassic
The Early Jurassic Epoch (in chronostratigraphy corresponding to the Lower Jurassic Series) is the earliest of three epochs of the Jurassic Period.
See Asteroceras and Early Jurassic
Jurassic
The Jurassic is a geologic period and stratigraphic system that spanned from the end of the Triassic Period million years ago (Mya) to the beginning of the Cretaceous Period, approximately Mya.
Late Triassic
The Late Triassic is the third and final epoch of the Triassic Period in the geologic time scale, spanning the time between Ma and Ma (million years ago).
See Asteroceras and Late Triassic
Lyme Regis
Lyme Regis is a town in west Dorset, England, west of Dorchester and east of Exeter.
See Asteroceras and Lyme Regis
Sinemurian
In the geologic timescale, the Sinemurian is an age and stage in the Early or Lower Jurassic Epoch or Series.
See Asteroceras and Sinemurian
Triassic
The Triassic (sometimes symbolized 🝈) is a geologic period and system which spans 50.5 million years from the end of the Permian Period 251.902 million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Jurassic Period 201.4 Mya.
See also
Arietitidae
- Aegasteroceras
- Agassiceras
- Alsatites
- Arietites
- Arietitidae
- Arnioceras
- Asteroceras
- Asteroceras stellare
- Coroniceras
- Euagassiceras
- Hypasteroceras
- Vermiceras
Fossil taxa described in 1867
- Acanthopholis
- Asteroceras
- Colymboides
- Emplastus
- Equus stenonis
- Euclastes
- Eurhinodelphis
- Eutatus
- Liometopum brunascens
- Liometopum escheri
- Liometopum pallidum
- Liometopum stygium
- Lophocetus
- Meristina
- Mesotherium
- Orosaurus
- Palaeoloxodon falconeri
- Scaldicetus
Sinemurian life
- Arcusaurus
- Arietites
- Asteroceras
- Bienosaurus
- Cheltonia
- Coroniceras
- Cryolophosaurus
- Dasyceras
- Dianchungosaurus
- Dinnetherium
- Dornraptor
- Echioceras
- Eoderoceras
- Gryponyx
- Gyposaurus
- Hadrocodium
- Heterodontosaurus
- Hypasteroceras
- Komlosaurus
- Kotasaurus
- Lamplughsaura
- Lusitanosaurus
- Lycorhinus
- Megapnosaurus
- Microderoceras
- Oxynoticeras
- Paracymbites
- Paroxynoticeras
- Pegomastax
- Plesiopharos
- Pradhania
- Pulanesaura
- Radstockiceras
- Saltriovenator
- Sarcosaurus
- Scelidosaurus
- Sinoconodon
- Slatterites
- Xipheroceras
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroceras
Also known as Asteroceras obtusum.