Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Spiralia
Cladus: Lophotrochozoa
Phylum: Mollusca
Classis: Cephalopoda
Subclassis: †Ammonoidea
Ordo: †Ammonitida
SubOrdo: †Ammonitina
Superfamilia: Eoderocerataceae
Familia: Dactylioceratidae
Genus: Bettoniceras
Bettoniceras is genus of ammonite that lived during the Pliensbachian stage of the early Jurassic. It evolved from Reynesocoeloceras in Davoei ammonite zone and died out during Margaritatus zone. It is possible that Prodactylioceras evolved from this genus. Fossils of this genus have been found in Europe, Morocco, Tunisia,[2] and Chile.[1] Sometimes this genus is not considered valid, but just as a synonym of Prodactylioceras.[3]
Description
Ammonites of this genus had serpenticone planulate shells with mostly single ribs and no tubercules. Whorl section was round. Only difference between Prodactylioceras and Bettoniceras is that latter is missing tubercules.[1]
References
M. K. Howarth 2013. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L, Revised, Volume 3B, Chapter 4: Psiloceratoidea, Eoderoceratoidea, Hildoceratoidea.
"†Bettoniceras Wiedenmayer 1977". Paleobiology Database. Fossilworks. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
Meister, Christian; Dommergues, Jean-Louis; Dommergues, Cyril; Lachkar, Nadifa; El Hariri, Khadija (2011). "Les ammonites du Pliensbachien du jebel Bou Rharraf (Haut Atlas oriental, Maroc)" [Pliensbachian ammonites from the jebel Bou Rharraf (eastern High Atlas, Morocco)]. Geobios (in French). 44 (1): 117.e1–117.e60. doi:10.1016/j.geobios.2010.06.006.
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