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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.

Subgenera and species
Kossmaticeras (Karapadites) Collignon, 1954 • Kossmaticeras (Karapadites) besairieri Collignon, 1954 • Kossmaticeras (Karapadites) karapadensis Kossmat, 1897 • Kossmaticeras (Karapadites) madrasinus Stoliczka, 1865 • Kossmaticeras (Karapadites) planissimus Collignon, 1966 • Kossmaticeras (Kossmaticeras) de Grossouvre, 1901 • Kossmaticeras (Kossmaticeras) inornatum Collignon, 1966 • Kossmaticeras (Kossmaticeras) jeletzkyi Collignon, 1965 • Kossmaticeras (Kossmaticeras) jonesi Collignon, 1965 • Kossmaticeras (Kossmaticeras) kilenensis Alsen, 2018 • Kossmaticeras (Kossmaticeras) sakondryense Collignon, 1954 • Kossmaticeras (Kossmaticeras) sparsicostatum Kossmat, 1897 • Kossmaticeras (Kossmaticeras) theobaldianum Stolickza, 1865 • Kossmaticeras (Natalites) Collignon, 1954 • Kossmaticeras (Natalites) africanus van Hoepen, 1920 • Kossmaticeras (Natalites) elegans Kennedy, 1985 • Kossmaticeras (Natalites) similis Spath, 1921 • Kossmaticeras (Natalites) canadense McLearn, 1972 == Distribution ==
Distribution
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. == References ==
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