Wrightoceras

Wrightoceras; Temporal range: Turonian; 93–89 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Cephalopoda
Subclass:	†Ammonoidea
Genus:	†Wrightoceras; Reyment 1954
Species
	Wrightoceras munieri; Wrightoceras wallsi;

Wrightoceras is an extinct genus of cephalopod, belonging to the ammonite subclass, that lived during the Turonian epoch of the Late Cretaceous.

Distribution

Fossils of Wrightoceras have been found in Brazil, Colombia (La Frontera Formation), Egypt, Gabon, Mexico, Morocco, Nigeria, Oman, Peru, Tunisia, United States (Texas), and Venezuela.

References

1 2 "Paleobiology Database - Wrightoceras". Retrieved 17 December 2021.
↑ Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "Sepkoski's Online Genus Database". Retrieved 2014-05-28.
↑ Patarroyo, 2016, p.41

Bibliography

Patarroyo, Pedro (2016), "Amonoideos y otros macrofósiles del lectoestratotipo de la Formación la Frontera, Turoniano inferior - medio (Cretácico Superior) en San Francisco, Cundinamarca (Colombia)" (PDF), Boletín de Geología, Universidad Industrial de Santander, 38: 41–54, retrieved 2017-04-04

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[fossilworks-1] 1 2 "Paleobiology Database - Wrightoceras". Retrieved 17 December 2021.

[Sepkoski_Ceph-2] Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "Sepkoski's Online Genus Database". Retrieved 2014-05-28.

[Patarroyo_p41-3] Patarroyo, 2016, p.41