page_title: Albian
section_title: Originating in Middle Albian strata
hierarchical_section_title: Albian / Paleontology / †Ammonites / †Ammonitida / Originating in Middle Albian strata
caption_attribution_description: Mortoniceras inflatum (Sowerby, 1818) Deutsch: Durchmesser ca. 20 cm; Ober-Alb, Kreide; Ndumu, Südafrika; Museum für Naturkunde Berlin. English: Diameter ca. 20 cm; Upper Albian, Cretaceous; Ndumu, South Africa; Museum für Naturkunde Berlin. Français&#160;: Coquille fossile de Mortoniceras inflatum (Albien supérieur) récoltée à Ndumu, en Afrique du Sud, et exposée au Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Berlin. Diamètre&#160;: 20&#160;cm.
context_page_description: The Albian is both an age of the geologic timescale and a stage in the stratigraphic column. It is the youngest or uppermost subdivision of the Early/Lower Cretaceous epoch/series. Its approximate time range is 113.0 ± 1.0 Ma to 100.5 ± 0.9 Ma. The Albian is preceded by the Aptian and followed by the Cenomanian.
context_section_description: The following is a list of Ammonite genera whose fossils are geochronologically found first in middle Albian strata. These genera may survive into later portions of the Albian stage, or even into later geological stages. This list should not be thought of in terms of the lifespan of the genera included.
  Anagaudryceras
  Anahoplites
  Astiericeras
  Dimorphoplites
  Dipoloceras
  Dipoloceroides
  Engonoceras
  Epihoplites
  Euhoplites
  Falciferella
  Falloticeras
  Gastroplites
  Hamitoides
  Hysteroceras
  Isohoplites
  Manuaniceras
  Mojsisoviczia
  Mortoniceras
  Ostlingoceras
  Protengonoceras
  Proturrilitoides
  Pseudhelicoceras
  Scaphamites
  Subarcthoplites
  Sulcohoplites
  Turrilitoides
  Venezoliceras
  Zuluscaphites
caption: Mortoniceras from South Africa
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