Menuthiocrioceras is an ammonite genus from the Early Cretaceous belonging to the Ancyloceratoidea. Fossils belonging to this genus were found in Madagascar and Indonesia.[1][3]

Menuthiocrioceras
Temporal range: Valanginian–Barremian[1][2]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Ammonitida
Suborder: Ancyloceratina
Family: Crioceratitidae
Genus: Menuthiocrioceras
Collignon, 1949
Type species
Crioceras (Menuthiocrioceras) Lenoblei
Collignon, 1949

Species

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Species within the genus Menuthiocrioceras include:[3]

  • M. ampakabense Collignon, 1962
  • M. aontzyense Collignon, 1962
  • M. besairiei Collignon, 1949
  • M. colcanapi Collignon, 1962
  • M. compressum Skwarko & Thieuloy, 1989
  • M. hourcqui Collignon, 1949
  • M. irianense Skwarko & Thieuloy, 1989
  • M. kuntzi Collignon, 1962
  • M. lenoblei Collignon, 1949
  • M. mahafalense Collignon, 1962
  • M. sarkari Collignon, 1962
  • M. sornayi Collignon, 1962

References

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  1. ^ a b Skwarko, S.K. & Thieuloy, J.-P. 1989. Early Barremian (Early Cretaceous) Mollusca from the western Irian Jaya, Indonesia. Publication of the Geological Research & Development Centre (paleontology series), 6: 26-43.
  2. ^ Wright, C. W. "Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L, Mollusca 4: Cretaceous Ammonoidea (with contributions by JH Calloman (sic) and MK Howarth)." Geological Survey of America and University of Kansas, Boulder, Colorado, and Lawrence, Kansas 362 (1996).
  3. ^ a b Klein, J. et al., 2007 FOSSILIUM CATALOGUS I:ANIMALIA Pars 144, Lower Cretaceous Ammonites III Bochianitoidea, Protancyloceratoidea, Ancyloceratoidea, Ptychoceratoidea.