Vascoceras

Vascoceras Temporal range: Cenomanian-Turonian ~99.7–89.3 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
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

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.

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

• 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