Codazziceras

Codazziceras
Temporal range: Turonian
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Ammonitida
Family: Acanthoceratidae
Subfamily: Euomphaloceratinae
Genus: Codazziceras
Etayo Serna, 1979
Type species
C. scheibei
Species
  • C. ospinae
  • C. scheibei

Codazziceras is an early Late Cretaceous ammonite from the Late Cretaceous of Colombia, distinguished from Lyelliceras (Lyelliceratidae) from which it is based and added to the Euomphaloceratinae (Acanthoceratidae). The type species is Codazziceras scheibei and another described species is C. ospinae.[1] Fossils of Codazziceras have been found in the La Frontera Formation of Huila, Cundinamarca and Boyacá, and in the Loma Gorda Formation of Aipe, Huila.[2][3]

  1. ^ Codazziceras at Fossilworks.org
  2. ^ Patarroyo, 2016, p.41
  3. ^ Patarroyo, 2011, p.69