Vascoceras

Vascoceras
Temporal range: Cenomanian-Turonian
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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
Family: †Vascoceratidae
Genus: †Vascoceras
Choffat 1898
Species

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Synonyms
  • 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. The type species of the genus is Vascoceras gamai from Portugal.

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