Vascoceras charoni Barroso-Barcenilla and Goy 2010 (ammonite)

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Vascoceratidae

Full reference: F. Barroso-Barcenilla and A. Goy. 2010. The ammonite genus Vascoceras Choffat, 1898 (family Vascoceratidae Douvillé, 1912) in the Iberian Trough, Spain. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 290:199-235

Belongs to Vascoceras according to F. Barroso-Barcenilla and A. Goy 2010

Sister taxa: Vascoceras amieirense, Vascoceras barcoicense, Vascoceras birchbyi, Vascoceras bulbosum, Vascoceras cauvini, Vascoceras depressum, Vascoceras durandi, Vascoceras ellipticum, Vascoceras gamai, Vascoceras glabrum, Vascoceras globosum, Vascoceras harttii, Vascoceras kossmati, Vascoceras obscurum, Vascoceras polygonum, Vascoceras proprium, Vascoceras robustum, Vascoceras silvanense, Vascoceras simplex, Vascoceras venezolanum, Nannovascoceras intermedium, Paravascoceras carteri, Paravascoceras obessum, Paravascoceras tectiforme, Paravascoceras angermanni

Type specimen: UCM MS-3. Its type locality is Tamajón (Vascoceras gamai subzone), which is in a Cenomanian marine horizon in Spain.

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Tamajón (Vascoceras gamai subzone)

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