Vascoceras

Vascoceras Temporal range: Cenomanian-Turonian ~99.7–89.3 Ma PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N
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
Superfamily:	Acanthoceratoidea
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

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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. The type species of the genus is Vascoceras gamai.

The following species of Vascoceras have been registered:

Fossils of species within this genus have been found in the Cretaceous sediments of Angola, Brazil, Colombia (La Frontera Formation), Egypt, France, Mexico, Nigeria, Oman, Peru, Tunisia, United States and Venezuela.

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