Genus of molluscs (fossil)
Vascoceras
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| Fossil shell of Vascoceras cauvini from Nigeria, on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris
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Vascoceras
Choffat 1898
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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
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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]
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