Quitmaniceras
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Quitmaniceras Temporal range:
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Cephalopoda |
Subclass: | †Ammonoidea |
Order: | †Ammonitida |
Family: | †Acanthoceratidae |
Subfamily: | †Acanthoceratinae |
Genus: | †Quitmaniceras Powell, 1963 |
Species | |
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Quitmaniceras is a genus of small, compressed, fairly evolute ammonites from the lower Turonian of Grant County, New Mexico and Trans-Pecos Texas, included in the subfamily Acanthoceratinae. The shell has a carinate venter in juveniles and one that is arched in adults, usually with a raised siphonal line,(siphonal referring to the marginal siphuncle). Ribs are very weak to moderately strong, flexious, typically sloping forward toward the rim, bending further forward at the outer shoulder.
Distribution[edit]
Fossils of Quitmaniceras have been found in Colombia (Loma Gorda Formation, Aipe, Huila),[1] Mexico and the United States (Arizona and Texas).[2]
References[edit]
- ^ Patarroyo, 2011, p.69
- ^ Quitmaniceras at Fossilworks.org
Bibliography[edit]
- Sucesión de Amonitas del Cretácico Superior (Cenomaniano-Coniaciano) de la parte más alta de la Formación Hondita y de la Formación Loma Gorda en la Quebrada Bambucá, Aipe - Huila (Colombia). Boletín de Geología, Universidad Nacional de Colombia 33. 69–92. Accessed 2017-03-30. . 2011.
Further reading[edit]
- W.A. Cobban, S.C. Hook & W.J.Kennedy, 1989. Upper Cretaceous rocks and ammonite faunas of southwestern New Mexico, Memoir 45, New Mexico Bureau of Mines & Mineral ResourcesError: "Q18389983" is not a valid Wikidata entity ID.
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