Coilopoceras
{{Short description|Genus of algae (fossil)}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| fossil_range = Albian-Turonian
~{{fossil_range|112|90}}
| 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:Ammonites of North America
Category:Cretaceous United States
Category:Ammonites of South America
Category:Albian genus first appearances
Category:Turonian genus extinctions
Category:Fossil taxa described in 1903
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