Kossmaticeras is an extinct ammonoid genus belonging to the desmoceratacean family Kossmaticeratidae. Species in this genus were fast-moving nektonic carnivores. They lived during the Late Cretaceous, from the upper Turonian to the upper Maastrichtian ages. The type species of the genus is K. theobaldianus.
Subgenera and species
- Kossmaticeras (Karapadites) <small>Collignon, 1954</small>
- Kossmaticeras (Karapadites) besairieri <small>Collignon, 1954</small>
- Kossmaticeras (Karapadites) karapadensis <small>Kossmat, 1897</small>
- Kossmaticeras (Karapadites) madrasinus <small>Stoliczka, 1865</small>
- Kossmaticeras (Karapadites) planissimus <small> Collignon, 1966</small>
- Kossmaticeras (Kossmaticeras) <small>de Grossouvre, 1901</small>
- Kossmaticeras (Kossmaticeras) inornatum <small>Collignon, 1966</small>
- Kossmaticeras (Kossmaticeras) jeletzkyi <small>Collignon, 1965</small>
- Kossmaticeras (Kossmaticeras) jonesi <small>Collignon, 1965</small>
- Kossmaticeras (Kossmaticeras) kilenensis <small>Alsen, 2018</small>
- Kossmaticeras (Kossmaticeras) sakondryense <small>Collignon, 1954</small>
- Kossmaticeras (Kossmaticeras) sparsicostatum <small>Kossmat, 1897</small>
- Kossmaticeras (Kossmaticeras) theobaldianum <small>Stolickza, 1865</small>
- Kossmaticeras (Natalites) <small>Collignon, 1954</small>
- Kossmaticeras (Natalites) africanus <small>van Hoepen, 1920</small>
- Kossmaticeras (Natalites) elegans <small>Kennedy, 1985</small>
- Kossmaticeras (Natalites) similis <small>Spath, 1921</small>
- Kossmaticeras (Natalites) canadense <small>McLearn, 1972</small>
Distribution
Fossils of species within this genus have been found in the Cretaceous sediments of Antarctica, Australia, Canada, Chile, India, Madagascar, New Zealand and South Africa.
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