Vascoceras

Vascoceras
Temporal range: Cretaceous, 99.7–89.3 Ma

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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
Superfamily: Acanthocerataceae
Family: Vascoceratidae
Genus: Vascoceras
Choffat 1898
Synonyms

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  • Broggiiceras Benavides-Caceres 1956
  • Greenhornoceras Cobban and Scott 1972
  • Pachyvascoceras Furon 1935
  • Paravascoceras Furon 1935
  • Provascoceras Cooper 1979
  • Vascoceras (Greenhornoceras) Cobban and Scott 1972
  • Vascoceras (Pachyvascoceras) Furon 1935

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 upper Cenomanian age to the lower Turonian age. [2] The type species of the genus is Vascoceras gamai [1]

Species

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Distribution

Fossils of species within this genus have been found in the Cretaceous sediments of Angola, Brazil, Colombia, Egypt, France, Mexico, Nigeria, Oman, Peru, Tunisia, United States and Venezuela. [1]


References

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