Skirroceras bayleanum is a Stephanoceratacean (ammonite) species belonging to the family Stephanoceratidae.[2]
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Fossil of Skirroceras bayleanum from United Kingdom, on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris | |
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Skirroceras bayleanum (Oppel, 1857)
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These fast-moving nektonic carnivores lived during the Jurassic period, in the Bajocian age.[3]
Description
editSkirroceras bayleanum has a shell reaching about 10.8 centimetres (4.3 in) of diameter. [4]
Distribution
editFossils of Skirroceras bayleanum are found in the Middle Jurassic Bajocian age marine strata of United Kingdom and France.[1]
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