Exiteloceras
{{Short description|Genus of molluscs (fossil)}}
{{Automatic taxobox
|fossil_range = {{fossil range|Campanian|Maastrichtian|ref={{cite web
| last = Sepkoski| first = Jack| title= Sepkoski's Online Genus Database|authorlink =| year = 2002| url = http://strata.geology.wisc.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=231&rank=class| accessdate = 2014-05-28 }}}}
|image = Exiteloceras jenneyi 1.jpg
|image_caption = Fossil specimen of Exiteloceras jenneyi
|taxon = Exiteloceras
|authority = Hyatt, 1894
|subdivision_ranks = Species
|subdivision =
- E. densicostatum
- E. jenneyi
}}
Exiteloceras is an ammonite genus from the Late Cretaceous.
Exiteloceras was proposed by Alpheus Hyatt in 1894 for heteromorph ammonites with shells that are loosely coiled in a plane, early whorls varying from straight limbs connected by semicircular elbows to elliptical or nearly circular loops, later whorls being elliptical to circular. The whorl section is ovate with the dorsum on the inside curve broader than the venter on the outside. The ribs may be straight or flexuous and mostly slant. Most end with a tubule on the ventrolateral shoulder. The suture is ammonitic. The deeply incised sutural elements are asymmetric, including the double-pronged ventral lobe.
Distribution
Cretaceous of Egypt, Iraq, British Columbia, California, Colorado, Delaware, Montana, New Mexico, Wyoming.{{Cite journal|author1=Sandy M. S. McLachlan |author2=James W. Haggart |year=2017 |title=Reassessment of the late Campanian (Late Cretaceous) heteromorph ammonite fauna from Hornby Island, British Columbia, with implications for the taxonomy of the Diplomoceratidae and Nostoceratidae |journal=Journal of Systematic Palaeontology |volume=16 |issue= 15|pages= 1247–1299|doi=10.1080/14772019.2017.1381651 |s2cid=134663270 |url=https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/Reassessment_of_the_late_Campanian_Late_Cretaceous_heteromorph_ammonite_fauna_from_Hornby_Island_British_Columbia_with_implications_for_the_taxonomy_of_the_Diplomoceratidae_and_Nostoceratidae/5505022 |url-access=subscription }}
References
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;Bibliography
- A Pictorial Guide to Fossils by Gerard Ramon Case
- {{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}}
- Cobban, William A.,1974. Ammonites from the Navesink Formation at Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey; USGS Prof Paper 845.
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Category:Late Cretaceous animals of Asia
Category:Late Cretaceous animals of Africa
Category:Late Cretaceous ammonites of North America
Category:Campanian genus first appearances
Category:Maastrichtian genus extinctions
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