| Vascoceras Temporal range: Cenomanian-Turonian ~99.7–89.3 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N | |
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| Fossil shell of Vascoceras cauvini from Nigeria, on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Subclass: | Ammonoidea |
| Order: | Ammonitida |
| Superfamily: | Acanthoceratoidea |
| Family: | Vascoceratidae |
| Genus: | Vascoceras Choffat 1898 |
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Vascoceras is an extinct genus of Cretaceous ammonites included in the family Vascoceratidae. These fast-moving nektonic carnivores lived in the Cretaceous period from the late Cenomanian to the early Turonian. The type species of the genus is Vascoceras gamai from Portugal.
Species
The following species of Vascoceras have been described:
- V. humboldti
- V. olssoni
- V. angermanni
- V. cauvini
- V. hartti
- V. birchbyi
- V. durandi
- V. gamai
- V. proprium
- V. silvanense
- V. venezolanum
Distribution
The type species was first described in Portugal. Fossils of species within this genus have been found in the Cretaceous sediments of Angola, Brazil, Colombia (La Frontera Formation), Egypt, France, Mexico, Nigeria, Oman, Peru, Tunisia, United States and Venezuela.
References
- ^ Vascoceras at Fossilworks.org
- Sepkoski, Jack Sepkoski's Online Genus Database – Cephalopoda
- Patarroyo, 2016, p.41
Bibliography
- Patarroyo, Pedro (2016), "Amonoideos y otros macrofósiles del lectoestratotipo de la Formación la Frontera, Turoniano inferior - medio (Cretácico Superior) en San Francisco, Cundinamarca (Colombia)" (PDF), Boletín de Geología, Universidad Industrial de Santander, 38: 41–54, retrieved 2017-04-04
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- Ammonitida genera
- Cretaceous ammonites
- Ammonites of Africa
- Cretaceous Africa
- Ammonites of Europe
- Cretaceous Europe
- Ammonites of North America
- Cretaceous Mexico
- Cretaceous United States
- Ammonites of South America
- Cretaceous Brazil
- Cretaceous Colombia
- Cretaceous Venezuela
- Cenomanian life
- Turonian life
- Cenomanian genus first appearances
- Late Cretaceous extinctions
- Fossil taxa described in 1898
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