Vascoceras
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| Vascoceras | |
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| Fossil shell of Vascoceras cauvini from Nigeria, on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Subclass: | †Ammonoidea |
| Order: | †Ammonitida |
| Family: | †Vascoceratidae |
| Genus: | †Vascoceras Choffat 1898 |
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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.[2] The type species of the genus is Vascoceras gamai[1] from Portugal.
