Pseudocrioceras

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]

Pseudocrioceras
Temporal range: Barremian - Aptian
Pseudocrioceras
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Cephalopoda
Subclass:
Ammonoidea
Suborder:
Ancyloceratina
Family:
Ancyloceratidae
Genus:
Pseudocrioceras

Spath, 1924

This genus was an actively mobile carnivore with a nektonic lifestyle.[3]

Species
  • P. anthulai Eristavi 1955[3]
  • P. duvalianum (d’Orbigny, 1842)[2]
  • P. fasciculare (d’Orbigny, 1840)[2]

References
  1. New and less known Barremian-Albian ammonites from Colombia
  2. Pierre Ropolo, Roland Gonnet & Gabriel Conte The ‘Pseudocriocerasinterval’ and adjacent beds at La Bédoule (SE France): implications to highest Barremian/lowest Aptian biostratigraphy
  3. Pseudocrioceras at Fossilworks.org


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