Wrightoceras
| Wrightoceras Temporal range: Turonian | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Subclass: | †Ammonoidea |
| Genus: | †Wrightoceras Reyment 1954 |
| Species[1] | |
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Wrightoceras is an extinct genus of cephalopod, belonging to the ammonite subclass, that lived during the Turonian epoch of the Late Cretaceous.[2]
Distribution
[edit]Fossils of Wrightoceras have been found in Brazil, Colombia (La Frontera Formation),[3] Egypt, Gabon, Mexico, Morocco, Nigeria, Oman, Peru, Tunisia, United States (Texas), and Venezuela.[1]
References
[edit]- 1 2 "Paleobiology Database - Wrightoceras". Retrieved 17 December 2021.
- ↑ Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "Sepkoski's Online Genus Database". Retrieved 2014-05-28.
- ↑ 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 ammonites
- Ammonites of Africa
- Cretaceous Africa
- Ammonites of North America
- Cretaceous Mexico
- Cretaceous United States
- Ammonites of South America
- Cretaceous Brazil
- Cretaceous Colombia
- Cretaceous Peru
- Cretaceous Venezuela
- Turonian life
- Turonian genus first appearances
- Turonian genus extinctions
- Fossil taxa described in 1954
- Ammonite stubs