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Menuthiocrioceras

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Extinct genus of ammonites

Menuthiocrioceras
Temporal range: Valanginian–Barremian PreꞒ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Ammonitida
Suborder: Ancyloceratina
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 Ancyloceratoidea. Fossils belonging to this genus were found in Madagascar and Indonesia.

Species

Species within the genus Menuthiocrioceras include:

  • M. ampakabense Collignon, 1962
  • M. aontzyense Collignon, 1962
  • M. besairiei Collignon, 1949
  • M. colcanapi Collignon, 1962
  • M. compressum Skwarko & Thieuloy, 1989
  • M. hourcqui Collignon, 1949
  • M. irianense Skwarko & Thieuloy, 1989
  • M. kuntzi Collignon, 1962
  • M. lenoblei Collignon, 1949
  • M. mahafalense Collignon, 1962
  • M. sarkari Collignon, 1962
  • M. sornayi Collignon, 1962

References

  1. ^ 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. ^ Klein, J. et al., 2007 FOSSILIUM CATALOGUS I:ANIMALIA Pars 144, Lower Cretaceous Ammonites III Bochianitoidea, Protancyloceratoidea, Ancyloceratoidea, Ptychoceratoidea.
Taxon identifiers
Menuthiocrioceras


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