| Wrightoceras Temporal range: Turonian
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Subclass: | †Ammonoidea |
| Genus: | †Wrightoceras Reyment 1954 |
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Wrightoceras is an extinct genus of cephalopod, belonging to the ammonite subclass, that lived during the Turonian epoch of the Late Cretaceous.2
Distribution
Fossils of Wrightoceras have been found in Brazil, Colombia (La Frontera Formation),3 Egypt, Gabon, Mexico, Morocco, Nigeria, Oman, Peru, Tunisia, United States (Texas), and Venezuela.1
References
References
- "Paleobiology Database - Wrightoceras". Retrieved 17 December 2021.
- Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "Sepkoski's Online Genus Database". Retrieved 2014-05-28.
- Patarroyo, 2016, p.41
Bibliography
- Patarroyo, Pedro (2016), "Amonoideos y otros macrofósiles del lectoestratotipo de la Formación la Frontera, Turoniano inferior - medio (Cretácico Superior) en San Francisco, Cundinamarca (Colombia)" (PDF), Boletín de Geología, Universidad Industrial de Santander, 38: 41–54, retrieved 2017-04-04