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Vascoceras

Cephalopoda - Ammonoida - Vascoceratidae

Taxonomy
Vascoceras was named by Choffat (1898) [Sepkoski's age data: K Ceno-u K Turo-l Sepkoski's reference number: 716]. Its type is Vascoceras gamai. It is the type genus of Vascoceratidae, Vascoceratinae.

It was assigned to Ammonoidea by Sepkoski (2002); to Vascoceratidae by Reyment (1954), Benavides-Caceres (1956), Cooper (1978), Howarth (1985), Wright et al. (1996), Gale et al. (2005), Barroso-Barcenilla and Goy (2010); and to Vascoceratinae by Chancellor (1982), Kennedy et al. (1987), Meister (1989), Kennedy and Simmons (1991), Meister et al. (1992), Meister et al. (1994), Ifrim and Stinnesbeck (2007), Aly et al. (2008), Guendouz et al. (2022).

Species
Nannovascoceras intermedium (syn. Nannovascoceras constrictum, Nannovascoceras costatum), Paravascoceras angermanni, Paravascoceras carteri, Paravascoceras obessum, Paravascoceras tectiforme, V. amieirense, V. barcoicense, V. birchbyi, V. bulbosum, V. cauvini (syn. V. (Pachyvascoceras) crassum, Paravascoceras rumeaui, Broggiiceras humboldti, V. (Paracanthoceras) chevalieri, Broggiiceras olssoni, V. (Paravascoceras) chevalieri), V. charoni, V. depressum, V. durandi (syn. V. douvillei), V. ellipticum, V. gamai (syn. V. adonensis, V. mundae, V. grossouvrei) (type species), V. glabrum (syn. Nigericeras costatum), V. globosum, V. harttii, V. kossmati (syn. V. harttiformis), V. obscurum, V. polygonum, V. proprium (syn. Paravascoceras compressum, Paravascoceras costatum), V. robustum, V. silvanense, V. simplex, V. venezolanum
Species lacking formal opinion data
V. adunense, V. mohovanense