| Kossmaticeras Temporal range:
Late Turonian to Late Maastrichtian | |
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| Kossmaticeras species from Madagascar | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Subclass: | †Ammonoidea |
| Order: | †Ammonitida |
| Family: | †Kossmaticeratidae |
| Subfamily: | †Kossmaticeratinae |
| Genus: | †Kossmaticeras de Grossouvre, 1901 |
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Kossmaticeras is an extinct ammonoid genus belonging to the desmoceratacean family Kossmaticeratidae. Species in this genus were fast-moving nektonic carnivores. They lived during the Late Cretaceous, from the upper Turonian to the upper Maastrichtian ages. The type species of the genus is K. theobaldianus.
Fossils of species within this genus have been found in the Cretaceous sediments of Antarctica, Australia, Canada, Chile, India, Madagascar, New Zealand and South Africa.