title: Lewesiceras
text: # Lewesiceras
  
  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 Wright and Wright, 1951
  * Lewesiceras peramplum (Mantell, 1822)
  * Lewesiceras wiedmanni Wright & Kennedy, 1984
  
  ## Gallery
  
  * Lewesiceras peramplum, a pachydiscid ammonite from Upper Turonian of Poland
  * Lewesiceras cornicostatus, from Czech Republic, at the National Museum (Prague)
  * Lewesiceras sharpei, from Czech Republic, at the National Museum (Prague)
  