Pseudocrioceras
Pseudocrioceras | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Cephalopoda |
Subclass: | †Ammonoidea |
Order: | †Ammonitida |
Suborder: | †Ancyloceratina |
Family: | †Ancyloceratidae |
Genus: | †Pseudocrioceras Spath, 1924 |
Pseudocrioceras is an extinct genus of ammonites. The species Pseudocrioceras anthulai has been found in strata from the Barremian - Aptian age of Chipatá, Santander, Colombia and is known from Georgia and Dagestan.[1] The species Pseudocrioceras duvalianum and Pseudocrioceras fasciculare are found in the Barremian of France.[2]
This genus was an actively mobile carnivore with a nektonic lifestyle.[3]
Species[]
- Pseudocrioceras anthulai Eristavi 1955[3]
- Pseudocrioceras duvalianum (d’Orbigny, 1842)[2]
- Pseudocrioceras'fasciculare (d’Orbigny, 1840)[2]
References[]
- ^ New and less known Barremian-Albian ammonites from Colombia
- ^ a b c Pierre Ropolo, Roland Gonnet & Gabriel Conte The ‘Pseudocriocerasinterval’ and adjacent beds at La Bédoule (SE France): implications to highest Barremian/lowest Aptian biostratigraphy
- ^ a b Pseudocrioceras at Fossilworks.org
Categories:
- Ancyloceratoidea
- Ammonitida genera
- Cretaceous ammonites
- Ammonites of South America
- Cretaceous Colombia
- Altiplano Cundiboyacense
- Ammonites of Europe
- Cretaceous Europe
- Cretaceous France
- Barremian life
- Aptian life
- Fossil taxa described in 1924
- Paja Formation
- Ammonitida stubs