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
	W. munieri; W. wallsi;

Wrightoceras is an extinct genus of cephalopod, belonging to the Ammonite subclass, that lived during the Turonian epoch of the Late Cretaceous.^[2]

Distribution

Fossils of Wrightoceras have been found in Brazil, Colombia (La Frontera Formation),^[3] Egypt, Gabon, Mexico, Morocco, Nigeria, Oman, Peru, Tunisia, United States (Texas), and Venezuela.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "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] "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

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