Docidoceras
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Docidoceras is an extinct ammonite genus from the order Ammonitida
that lived during the Middle Jurassic in what is now Europe, North Africa, and Oregon. Docidoceras is included in the family Otoitidae
which makes up part of the ammonite superfamily Stephanocerataceae
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Docidoceras has a broad,finely ribbed, evolute shell with a depressed whorl section. The venter,the outer rim, is broadly arched and crossed by the ribs without interruption. The dorsum, on the inner rim of the whorls is broadly impressed.
Ammonitida
The Ammonitida is an order of more highly evolved ammonoid cephalopods from the Jurassic and Cretaceous time periods, commonly with intricate ammonitic sutures....
that lived during the Middle Jurassic in what is now Europe, North Africa, and Oregon. Docidoceras is included in the family Otoitidae
Otoitidae
Otoidtidae: stephanoceratacean ammonitina from the early Middle Jurassic that begin as cadicones but become more planualte with age; derived from the Hammitoceratidae , probably through Erycites by way of Abbasites....
which makes up part of the ammonite superfamily Stephanocerataceae
Stephanocerataceae
Stephanocerataceae is a superfamily of middle Jurassic ammonoid cephalopods within the order Ammonitida containing diverse forms, generally with sharp ribbing and complex suture lines...
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Docidoceras has a broad,finely ribbed, evolute shell with a depressed whorl section. The venter,the outer rim, is broadly arched and crossed by the ribs without interruption. The dorsum, on the inner rim of the whorls is broadly impressed.