Harpoceras

Harpoceras
Temporal range:
Harpoceras falcifer from Posidonia Shale, Germany
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: †Ammonoidea
Order: †Ammonitida
Family: †Hildoceratidae
Subfamily: †Harpoceratinae
Genus: †Harpoceras
Waagen, 1869
Type species
Ammonites falcifer
Sowerby, 1820
Species
  • Harpoceras falciferum Sowerby, 1820
  • Harpoceras kisslingi Hug, 1898
  • Harpoceras lassum Buckman, 1927
  • Harpoceras mediterraneum Pinna, 1968
  • Harpoceras pseudoserpentinum Gabilly, 1973
  • Harpoceras rulleaui Bécaud, 2006
  • Harpoceras serpentinum Schlotheim, 1813
  • Harpoceras strangewaysi Sowerby, 1820
  • Harpoceras subexaratum Bonarelli, 1899
  • Harpoceras subplanatum Oppel, 1856
  • Harpoceras loeve Gabilly, 1975
Synonyms
  • Falcifericeras Breistroffer, 1949
  • Gallitellia Venturi and Ferri, 2001
  • Glyptarpites Buckman, 1927
  • Harpoceratoides Buckman, 1909
  • Kolymoceras Dagis, 1970
  • Lioceras Bayle, 1878
  • Maconiceras Buckman, 1926
  • Phaularpites Buckman, 1928
  • Tardarpoceras Buckman, 1927

Harpoceras is an extinct genus of ammonite belonging to the family Hildoceratidae. These cephalopods existed in the Jurassic period, during the Toarcian age from the Falciferum zone to the Commune subzone of the Bifrons zone. They were fast-moving nektonic carnivores.

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