Menuthiocrioceras

Menuthiocrioceras
Temporal range: Valanginian–Barremian[1][2]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Ammonitida
Family: Crioceratitidae
Genus: Menuthiocrioceras
Collignon, 1949
Type species
Crioceras (Menuthiocrioceras) Lenoblei
Collignon, 1949

Menuthiocrioceras is an ammonite genus from the Early Cretaceous belonging to the Ancylocerataceae. Fossils belonging to this genus were found in Madagascar and Indonesia.[1][3]

Species

Species within the genus Menuthiocrioceras include:[3]

References

  1. 1 2 Skwarko, S.K. & Thieuloy, J.-P. 1989. Early Barremian (Early Cretaceous) Mollusca from the western Irian Jaya, Indonesia. Publication of the Geological Research & Development Centre (paleontology series), 6: 26-43.
  2. Wright, C. W. "Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L, Mollusca 4: Cretaceous Ammonoidea (with contributions by JH Calloman (sic) and MK Howarth)." Geological Survey of America and University of Kansas, Boulder, Colorado, and Lawrence, Kansas 362 (1996).
  3. 1 2 Klein, J. et al. FOSSILIUM CATALOGUS I:ANIMALIA Pars 144, Lower Cretaceous Ammonites III Bochianitoidea, Protancyloceratoidea, Ancyloceratoidea, Ptychoceratoidea, 2007.


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