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: †Perisphinctoidea
Familia: † Neocomitidae
Subfamilia: †Neocomitinae
Genus: †Eleniceras
Species: †E. nikolovi – †E. stevrecensis – †E. tchechitevi – †E. transsylvanicum
Name
Eleniceras Breskovski 1967
Derivatio nominis: Named after the town of Elena, Bulgaria.
References
Breskovski, St. 1967. Eleniceras - genre nouveau d'ammonites hautériviens. Bull. Geol. Inst., Ser. Paleontology 16: 47–52. Online.
Vašíček, Z. 2002. Lower Cretaceous Ammonoidea in the Podbranc quarry (Pieniny Klippen Belt, Slovakia). Bulletin of the Czech Geological Survey 77(3): 187–200.
Links
Eleniceras at the Paleobiology database, Accessed on 31 December 2021
Eleniceras at the Catalogue of Life (COL), Accessed on 31 December 2021
Eleniceras at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, Accessed on 6 April 2012
Eleniceras at the Index to Organism Names (ION), Accessed on 7 April 2012
Eleniceras at the Universal Biological Indexer & Organizer (UBIO), Accessed on 7 April 2012
Eleniceras at Nomenclator Zoologicus, Accessed on 7 April 2012
Eleniceras is an extinct genus of cephalopods belonging to the Ammonoidea subclass.[2]
Description
The genus was named after the Bulgarian town of Elena. The holotype is Eleniceras stevrecensis. There are several described species of Eleniceras, including E. nikolovi, E. stevrecensis, E. tchechitevi, E. transsylvanicum.[3] [4]
Distribution
This animal lived 140–129 million years ago during the Hauterivian in Europe and Tunisia.
See also
List of ammonite genera
References
"Eleniceras". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 17 June 2023.
Breskovski, St. (1967); "Eleniceras - genre nouveau d'ammonites hauterivien" Bull of the Geological Institute, Ser. Paleontology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences XVI: 47-52.
Vašíček, Zdeněk (2002); "Lower Cretaceous Ammonoidea in the Podbranč quarry (Pieniny Klippen Belt, Slovakia)" Bulletin of the Czech Geological Survey, Vol. 77, No. 3, 192
Wright, C. W. with Callomon, J.H. and Howarth, M.K. (1996), Mollusca 4 Revised , Cretaceous Ammonoidea, vol. 4, in Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L (Roger L. Kaesler et al. eds.), Boulder, Colorado: The Geological Society of America & Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas Press, at 61, 66.
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