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| Fossil shell of Vascoceras cauvini from Nigeria, on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Subclass: | †Ammonoidea |
| Order: | †Ammonitida |
| 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.[2] The type species of the genus is Vascoceras gamai[1] from Portugal.
Species
[edit]The following species of Vascoceras have been described:[1]
- V. humboldti
- V. olssoni
- V. angermanni
- V. cauvini
- V. hartti
- V. birchbyi
- V. durandi
- V. gamai
- V. proprium
- V. silvanense
- V. venezolanum
Distribution
[edit]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),[3] Egypt, France, Mexico, Nigeria, Oman, Peru, Tunisia, United States and Venezuela.[1]
References
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- 1 2 3 4 Vascoceras at Fossilworks.org
- ↑ Sepkoski, Jack Sepkoski's Online Genus Database – Cephalopoda
- ↑ Patarroyo, 2016, p.41
Bibliography
[edit]- 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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- Cretaceous Brazil
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- Cenomanian life
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