Vascoceras

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.

Vascoceras
Temporal range: Cenomanian-Turonian
~99.7–89.3 Ma
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:
Acanthoceratoidea
Family:
Vascoceratidae
Genus:
Vascoceras

Choffat 1898
Species

See text

Synonyms[1]
  • 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

Species

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

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
  1. Vascoceras at Fossilworks.org
  2. Sepkoski, Jack Sepkoski's Online Genus Database – Cephalopoda
  3. Patarroyo, 2016, p.41

Bibliography


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