Skirroceras is a Stephanoceratacean (ammonite) genus belonging to the family Stephanoceratidae. These fast-swimming carnivores lived during the Jurassic period, in the Bajocian age.[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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| Genus: | Skirroceras Mascke, 1907
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- Skirroceras bayleanum (Oppel, 1857) [3]
- Skirroceras macrum (von Quenstedt) [4]
- Skirroceras leptogyrale Buckman [5][6]
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