Menuthiocrioceras

{{Short description|Extinct genus of ammonites}}

{{Automatic taxobox

|fossil_range = {{Fossil range|Valanginian|Barremian|ref=Skwarko, S.K. & Thieuloy, J.-P. 1989. Early Barremian (Early Cretaceous) Mollusca from the western Irian Jaya, Indonesia. Publication of the Geological Research & Development Centre (paleontology series), 6: 26-43.Wright, C. W. "Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L, Mollusca 4: Cretaceous Ammonoidea (with contributions by JH Calloman (sic) and MK Howarth)." Geological Survey of America and University of Kansas, Boulder, Colorado, and Lawrence, Kansas 362 (1996).}}

|taxon = Menuthiocrioceras

|authority = Collignon, 1949

|type_species = Crioceras (Menuthiocrioceras) Lenoblei

|type_species_authority = Collignon, 1949

|subdivision_ranks = Species

}}

Menuthiocrioceras is an ammonite genus from the Early Cretaceous belonging to the Ancyloceratoidea. Fossils belonging to this genus were found in Madagascar and Indonesia.Klein, J. et al., 2007 FOSSILIUM CATALOGUS I:ANIMALIA Pars 144, Lower Cretaceous Ammonites III Bochianitoidea, Protancyloceratoidea, Ancyloceratoidea, Ptychoceratoidea.

Species

Species within the genus Menuthiocrioceras include:

  • M. ampakabense Collignon, 1962
  • M. aontzyense Collignon, 1962
  • M. besairiei Collignon, 1949
  • M. colcanapi Collignon, 1962
  • M. compressum Skwarko & Thieuloy, 1989
  • M. hourcqui Collignon, 1949
  • M. irianense Skwarko & Thieuloy, 1989
  • M. kuntzi Collignon, 1962
  • M. lenoblei Collignon, 1949
  • M. mahafalense Collignon, 1962
  • M. sarkari Collignon, 1962
  • M. sornayi Collignon, 1962

References