Cymatoceras

Cymatoceras is a wide-ranging extinct genus from the nautilitacean cephalopod family, Cymatoceratidae. They lived from the Late Jurassic to Late Oligocene, roughly from 155 to 23 Ma.

Species

The following species of Cymatoceras have been described:C. albenseC. atlasC. bayfieldiC. bifidumC. bifurcatumC. carlottenseC. cenomanenseC. colombianaC. crebricostatumC. deslongchampsianumC. eichwaldiC. elegansC. hendersoniC. hilliC. honmaiC. hunstantonensisC. huxleyanumC. karakaschiC. kayeanumC. kossmatiC. loricatumC. ludevigiC. manuanensisC. mikadoC. neckerianumC. negamaC. neocomienseC. pacificumC. paralibanoticumC. patagonicumC. patensC. perstriatumC. pictetiC. pseudoatlasC. pseudoelegansC. pseudoneokomienseC. pseudonegamaC. pulchrumC. radiatumC. renngarteniC. sakalavumC. sarysuenseC. savelieviC. semilobatumC. sharpeiC. tenuicostatumC. tourtiaeC. tskaltsithelenseC. tsukushienseC. virgatum

''C. yabei''

Description

Its shell is generally subglobular, variably involute with a rounded whorl section. Sides and venter bear conspicuous ribs. The suture is only slightly sinuous and the siphuncle position is variable.
Paracymatoceras, coeval during the Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous differs primarily in having a more sinuous suture. Neocymatoceras tsukushiense from the Oligocene Ashiya Group of Japan, described by Kobayashi, 1954, has been reassigned to Cymatoceras.

Fossil record

Fossils of Cymatoceras are found in marine strata from the Jurassic until the Oligocene. Fossils are known from several localities:
;Jurassic
Mexico
;Cretaceous
Antarctica, Argentina, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Chile, Colombia, France, Georgia, Germany, Greenland, India, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Madagascar, Mexico, Morocco, Mozambique, Papua New Guinea, Poland, the Russian Federation, Switzerland, Tanzania, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, United States.
;Oligocene
Japan