Fagesia
Genus of molluscs (fossil)
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Fagesia is a small, subglobular ammonite (suborder Ammonitina) belonging to the vascoceratid family of the Acanthocerataceae that lived during the Turonian stage of the Late Cretaceous, 92–88 Ma ago.
| Fagesia Temporal range: Turonian | |
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| Fossil of Fagesia spheroidalis from Japan. Late Cretaceous. Exhibit in the National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo, Japan | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Subclass: | †Ammonoidea |
| Order: | †Ammonitida |
| Family: | †Vascoceratidae |
| Genus: | †Fagesia Pervinquière 1907 |
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The shell of Fagesia is about 9.5 cm (3.47 in) in diameter, typically with blunt umbilical tubercles from which spring 2 or three ribs each, but which are lost in the late growth stage. The suture is ammonitic with long spikey lobes and saddles with rounded subelements.
Species
- †Fagesia catinus Mantell 1822 - Loma Gorda Formation, Colombia
- †Fagesia fleuryi Pervinquière 1907
- †Fagesia peroni Pervinquière 1907
- †Fagesia pervinquieri Bose 1920
- †Fagesia rudra Stoliczka 1865
- †Fagesia spheroidalis Pervinquière 1907
- †Fagesia superstes Kossmat 1897
- †Fagesia tevesthensis Peron 1896
Distribution
Fossils of Fagesia have been found in Brazil, Colombia (El Colegio, Cundinamarca, La Frontera (Cundinamarca, Huila and Boyacá),[1] and Loma Gorda Formations, Aipe, Huila),[2] Egypt, France, Mexico, Morocco, Nigeria, Oman, Romania, the Russian Federation, Tunisia, United States (Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas), and Venezuela.[3]
