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.
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| Genus: | Vascoceras Choffat 1898
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Species
editThe 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
editThe 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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- ^ a b c d 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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