{{Short description|Genus of molluscs (fossil)}} {{Automatic taxobox | fossil_range = {{Fossilrange|Upper Cretaceous}} | image = Gasteropods - Ammonites - Lewericeras mantelli.JPG | image_caption = ''Lewesiceras mantelli'', from Czech Republic, at the National Museum (Prague) | taxon = Lewesiceras | authority = Spath, 1939 | synonyms = }}
'''''Lewesiceras''''' is a genus of large ammonites belonging to the order Ammonitida and the family Pachydiscidae.
They lived in the late Cretaceous period, in the Cenomanian and Turonian ages, which occurred 99.6-89.3 million years ago. These shelled ammonoids were nektonic, fast-moving and carnivorous.
==Fossils distribution== Cretaceous of Armenia, France, Germany, United States (Texas), Uzbekistan.
==Species== * ''Lewesiceras mantelli'' <small>Wright and Wright, 1951</small> * ''Lewesiceras peramplum'' <small>(Mantell, 1822)</small> * ''Lewesiceras wiedmanni'' <small>Wright & Kennedy, 1984</small>
==Gallery== <gallery widths="240" caption="thumb|Lewesiceras peramplum, upper cretaceous, middle Turonian, Dortmund / NW-Germany"> File:Gasteropods - Ammonites - Lewesiceras cornicostatus.JPG|''Lewesiceras cornicostatus'', from Czech Republic, at the National Museum (Prague) File:Amonit Lewesiceras.jpg|''Lewesiceras sharpei'', from Czech Republic, at the National Museum (Prague) </gallery>
==References== *[https://www.biolib.cz/en/taxon/id134167/ Biolib] *[https://www.paleodb.org The Paleobiology Database] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071001114925/http://paleodb.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl |date=2007-10-01 }} *Sepkoski, Jack [http://strata.geology.wisc.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=183&rank=phylum Sepkoski's Online Genus Database – Cephalopods] *[http://www.helsinki.fi/~mhaaramo/metazoa/protostoma/mollusca/cephalopoda/ammonoidea/ammonitida.html Ammonitida] *Wittler, F. A. & Roth, R. (2003): Fazies und Fauna der Oberkreidegesteine im Dortmunder Stadtgebiet. I: Temporäre Aufschlüsse imTuron und Unterconiac zwischen 1988 und 2001. Stratigraphie, Fossilführung.- Dortm. Beiträge Landeskde., naturwiss. Mitt. 36/37: 241-340 ([https://www.zobodat.at/pdf/Dortmunder-Beitr-Landeskde_36-37_0247-0340.pdf Dortmunder-Beitr-Landeskde_36-37_0247-0340.pdf)], Abb. 6 ff.
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Category:Cretaceous ammonites Category:Fossils of France Category:Desmoceratoidea Category:Ammonitida genera
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