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Coilopoceras

Classification

    Phylum:  
Mollusca
    Class:  
Cephalopoda
    Order:  
Ammonitida
    Superfamily:  
Acanthocerataceae
    Family:  
Coilopoceratidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Coilopoceras HYATT , 1903, p. 91
    Type Species:  
[*C. colleti; OD] [=Namadoceras VREDENBURG, 1907, p. 121 (type, N. scindiae; OD); Glebosoceras REYMENT, 1954a, p. 161 (type, G. glebosum; OD); Vredenburgia C HIPLONKAR & G HARE , 1976, p. 7 (type, V. khadluensis; OD)]


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F IG . 155,1a–d. *C. colleti, Upper Turonian, New Mexico; ×1 (Hyatt, 1903). ——F IG . 155,1e,f. C. glebosum (R EYMENT ), Turonian, Nigeria; e, approximately × 0.2; f, × 1 (Reyment, 1954a).


Synonyms

Namadoceras; Glebosoceras; Vredenburgia


Geographic Distribution

France, Spain, northern and western Africa, Madagascar, Lebanon, Israel, Baluchistan, Colorado, Wyoming, Texas, New Mexico, Mexico, Trinidad, Venezuela, Ecuador, Colombia, Peru


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Upper Cretaceous (Middle Turonian)
    Beginning International Stage:  
Turonian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
25
    Beginning Date:  
92.77
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Upper Cretaceous (Upper Turonian)
    Ending International Stage:  
Turonian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
89.39


Description

Large, with diameter up to 800 mm; involute; compressed to inflated; lanceolate to cordate in section, with more or less sharp venter; variable, broad, low ribs may persist; in inflated forms (Glebosoceras) ribs raised into large bulges on inner part of side on outer whorls; in some such forms ribs may be strongly projected ventrolaterally, but this is probably not significant. Suture variable; accessory saddle may be larger than the second lateral, which with auxiliary saddles tends to become entire in outline.




References



Museum or Author Information

Hyatt, 1903; Reyment, 1954