Peroniceras

Genus of molluscs (fossil)

Peroniceras is an ammonite (an extinct group of marine mollusc) belonging to the Ammonitida family Collignoniceratidae.

Species of this genus were widespread throughout the world. They were fast-moving nektonic carnivore shelled ammonoids.

Distribution

Cretaceous of Antarctica, Cameroon, Canada (British Columbia), Denmark, France, India, Mexico, Nigeria, South Africa, United States (California), Venezuela ; Jurassic of Japan ^[2]

References

1. Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "Sepkoski's Online Genus Database". Retrieved 2014-05-28.
2. "Paleobiology Database - Peroniceras". Retrieved 17 December 2021.

Further reading

• John Bernard Reeside The cephalopods of the Eagle sandstone and related formations