title: Pleuroceras (ammonite)
text: # Pleuroceras (ammonite)
  
  Pleuroceras is a genus of ammonite from the lower Jurassic, upper Pliensbachian.
  
  ## Species
  
  * Pleuroceras hawskerense (Young & Bird, 1828)
  * Pleuroceras solare (Phillips, 1829)
  * Pleuroceras spinatum (Bruguière, 1789)
  * Pleuroceras transiens Frentzen, 1937
  * Pleuroceras apyrenum Buckman, 1911
  
  ## Description
  
  Pleuroceras has a planulate shell with a quadrate whorl section, bearing strong radial ribs ending in ventro-lateral tubercles. The venter is tabulate with a strong serrated keel.
  
  ## Distribution
  
  Species of this genus were fast-moving nektonic carnivores. Its fossils have been found in Canada and Europe (Bulgaria, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Spain and United Kingdom).
  
  