Vascoceras is an extinct genus of Cretaceous ammonites included in the family Vascoceratidae. These fast-moving nektonic carnivores lived in the Cretaceous period from the late Cenomanian to the early Turonian.Sepkoski, Jack Sepkoski's Online Genus Database – Cephalopoda The type species of the genus is Vascoceras gamai from Portugal.
Species The following species of Vascoceras have been described:
V. humboldti V. olssoni V. angermanni V. cauvini V. hartti V. birchbyi V. durandi V. gamai V. proprium V. silvanense V. venezolanum
Distribution The type species was first described in Portugal. Fossils of species within this genus have been found in the Cretaceous sediments of Angola, Brazil, Colombia (La Frontera Formation),Patarroyo, 2016, p.41 Egypt, France, Mexico, Nigeria, Oman, Peru, Tunisia, United States and Venezuela.
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