Wrightoceras
Wrightoceras Temporal range: Turonian
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Genus: | Wrightoceras Reyment 1954
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Wrightoceras is an extinct genus of cephalopod, belonging to the Ammonite subclass, that lived during the Turonian epoch of the Late Cretaceous.[2]
Distribution[]
Fossils of Wrightoceras have been found in Brazil, Colombia (La Frontera Formation),[3] Egypt, Gabon, Mexico, Morocco, Nigeria, Oman, Peru, Tunisia, United States (Texas), and Venezuela.[1]
References[]
- ^ a b "Paleobiology Database - Wrightoceras". Retrieved 17 December 2021.
- ^ Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "Sepkoski's Online Genus Database". Retrieved 2014-05-28.
- ^ Patarroyo, 2016, p.41
Bibliography[]
- Amonoideos y otros macrofósiles del lectoestratotipo de la Formación la Frontera, Turoniano inferior - medio (Cretácico Superior) en San Francisco, Cundinamarca (Colombia). Boletín de Geología, Universidad Industrial de Santander 38. 41-54. Accessed 2017-04-04. . 2016.
Categories:
- Cretaceous ammonites
- Ammonites of Africa
- Cretaceous Africa
- Ammonites of North America
- Cretaceous Mexico
- Cretaceous United States
- Ammonites of South America
- Cretaceous Brazil
- Cretaceous Colombia
- Cretaceous Peru
- Cretaceous Venezuela
- Turonian life
- Turonian genus first appearances
- Turonian genus extinctions
- Fossil taxa described in 1954
- Ammonite stubs