Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Vascoceratidae
Synonym: Plesiovascoceras Spath 1926
Parent taxon: Vascoceratinae according to M. L. Guendouz et al. 2022
See also Barroso-Barcenilla and Goy 2009, Chancellor 1982, Cobban and Hook 1983, Ifrim and Stinnesbeck 2007, Kennedy 1994, Kennedy et al. 2008, Kennedy and Gale 2016, Kennedy and Simmons 1991, Kennedy et al. 1987, Matsumoto 1959, Meister 1989, Reyment 1954, Sepkoski 2002 and Zaborski 1987
Sister taxa: Infabricaticeras, Neoptychites, Vascoceras
Subtaxa: Ammonites boucheroni Fagesia catinus Fagesia fleuryi Fagesia involuta Fagesia mortzestus Fagesia pachydiscoides Fagesia peroni Fagesia pervinquieri Fagesia rudra Fagesia siskiyouensis Fagesia superstes Fagesia tevesthensis
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Algeria (13 collections), Brazil (5), Colombia (1), Egypt (7), France (4), Gabon (1), Mexico (2), Morocco (1), Nigeria (7), Oman (1), Romania (2), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (6), Tunisia (7), United States (14: Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas), Venezuela (4)
Total: 76 collections including 90 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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