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| Fossil specimen at Field Museum of Natural History | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Subclass: | †Ammonoidea |
| Order: | †Ammonitida |
| Family: | †Coeloceratidae |
| Genus: | †Apoderoceras Buckman, 1921 |
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Apoderoceras is an extinct genus of cephalopod belonging to the ammonite subclass.
Ammonites (Apoderoceras) were predatory mollusks that resembled a squid with a shell. These cephalopods had eyes, tentacles, and spiral shells. They are more closely related to a living octopus, though the shells resemble that of a nautilus. True ammonites appeared in the fossil record about 240 million years ago. The last lineages disappeared 65 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous.[3]
- ^ Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "Sepkoski's Online Genus Database". Retrieved 2014-05-28.
- ^ "Apoderoceras". Fossilworks. Gateway to the Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 29 April 2022.
- ^ https://www.fossilera.com/fossils/huge-13-spiny-jurassic-ammonite-apoderoceras-fossil-england