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
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Ammonitida
Suborder: Ancyloceratina
Family: Ancyloceratidae
Genus: Pseudocrioceras
Spath, 1924

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

Species

  • Pseudocrioceras anthulai Eristavi 1955[3]
  • Pseudocrioceras duvalianum (d’Orbigny, 1842)[2]
  • Pseudocrioceras'fasciculare (d’Orbigny, 1840)[2]

References


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