Coilopoceras

{{Short description|Genus of algae (fossil)}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| fossil_range = Albian-Turonian
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| taxon = Coilopoceras

| authority = Hyatt, 1903

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision =

  • C. colleti
  • C. inflatum
  • C. jenksi
  • C. leseli
  • C. newelli
  • C. zihoricum

| type_species = C. colleti

}}

Coilopoceras is a compressed, involute, lenticular ammonitid from the Cretaceous (Albian to Turonian),[https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=15057 Coilopoceras] at Fossilworks.org with a narrow venter and raggedy ammonitic suture; type of the Coilopoceratidae, a family in the Acanthoceratoidea of the suborder Ammonitina.

Distribution

Coilopoceras has an established range from the upper Albian to Turonian in the Late Cretaceous. Its distribution is widespread, from western North America (Mexico, New Mexico, Texas) through northern Africa (Egypt, Cameroon, Niger, Nigeria and Tunisia) and Europe (France) to the Middle East (Israel), Madagascar and South America (Brazil, Peru and Colombia; La Frontera and San Rafael Formations).Patarroyo, 2016, p.41

References

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= Bibliography =

  • {{citation |last=Patarroyo |first=Pedro |year=2016 |title=Amonoideos y otros macrofósiles del lectoestratotipo de la Formación la Frontera, Turoniano inferior - medio (Cretácico Superior) en San Francisco, Cundinamarca (Colombia) |url=http://www.scielo.org.co/pdf/boge/v38n3/v38n3a03.pdf |journal=Boletín de Geología, Universidad Industrial de Santander |volume=38 |pages=41–54 |accessdate=2017-04-04}}

Further reading

  • {{cite book| first1=W.J. |last1=Arkell |first2=B. |last2=Kummel |first3=C.W. |last3=Wright |series=Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L, Mollusca 4| title=Mesozoic Ammonoidea | publisher=Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press |location=Lawrence, Kansas|year=1957}}
  • [https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=14707 The Paleobiology Database - Coilopoceras entry] accessed 2 December 2011

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Category:Ammonitida genera

Category:Acanthoceratoidea

Category:Cretaceous ammonites

Category:Ammonites of Africa

Category:Cretaceous Africa

Category:Ammonites of Europe

Category:Cretaceous France

Category:Ammonites of North America

Category:Cretaceous Mexico

Category:Cretaceous United States

Category:Ammonites of South America

Category:Cretaceous Brazil

Category:Cretaceous Colombia

Category:Cretaceous Peru

Category:Albian genus first appearances

Category:Turonian genus extinctions

Category:Fossil taxa described in 1903

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