Gaudryceras
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Gaudryceras Temporal range: Cretaceous |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Order: | Ammonitida |
| Family: | Gaudryceratidae |
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Gaudryceras de Grossouvre 1894 |
Gaudryceras is an ammonite genus belonging to the family Gaudryceratidae.
These cephalopods were fast-moving nektonic carnivores. They lived in the Cretaceous period, from Albian to Maastrichtian stages (105.3 to 66.043 Ma).
Subg. Gaudryceras (Gaudryceras) de Grossouvre 1894
Subg. Gaudryceras (Mesogaudryceras) Spath 1927
Subg. Gaudryceras (Neogaudryceras) Shimizu 1935
Fossils of species within this genus have been found in the Cretaceous sediments of Angola, Antarctica, Australia, Austria, Brazil, Chile, France, Germany, India, Japan, Madagascar, Mexico, New Zealand, Nigeria, Russia, South Africa, Spain and United States.
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