Crioceratites

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Spiralia
Cladus: Lophotrochozoa
Phylum: Mollusca
Classis: Cephalopoda
Subclassis: † Ammonoidea
Ordo: † Ammonitida
Subordo: † Ancyloceratina
Superfamilia: Ancylocerataceae
Familia: Crioceratitidae
Genus: †Crioceratites
Species: †C. andersoni – †C. barrabei – †C. bituberculatus – †C. coniferus – †C. duvalii – †C. elegans – †C. emerici – †C. heterocostatus – †C. krenkeli – †C. latus – †C. leivaensis – †C. nolani – †C. loryi – †C. panescorsii – †C. portarum – †C. primitivus – †C. tehamaensis – †C. tener – †C. villiersianus – †C. yollabollium
Name

Crioceratites Léveillé, 1837

Synonyms:

Crioceras d'Orbigny, 1842
Criocerus King, 1844
Crioceratites (Crioceras) d'Orbigny, 1842
Toxoceras d'Orbigny, 1842

References

Léveillé C., 1837. Description de quelques nouvelles coquilles fossiles du département des Basses-Alpes. Éditeur F.-G. Levrault. Paris / Strasbourg, 3 pp., 2 pls., Mémoires de la Société Géologique de France, 1ère série, tome II, mémoire n° 10. Reference page.

Links

Crioceratites – Taxon details on Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF).
Crioceratites – Taxon details on Interim Register of Marine and Non-marine Genera (IRMNG).
Crioceratites - Taxon details on Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN).

Crioceratites – Taxon details on Paleobiology Database. - Accessed on 29 November 2008

Crioceratites is an ammonite genus from the Early Cretaceous belonging to the Ancyloceratoidea.

Crioceratites was formerly included in the Ancyloceratidae, in the subfamily Crioceratinae which was subsequently elevated in rank to the family Crioceratidae. Crioceras and Toxoceras d'Orbigny and possibly Emericiceras Sarka 1954 are junior synonyms.

Species

Species within the genus Crioceratites include:[2][3]

C. anglesensis Sarkar, 1955
C. anglesensis non Sarkar Thomel, 1965
C. angulatus Torcapel, 1884 - nomen dubium
C. arci Dimitrova, 1967
C. arkelli Sarkar, 1955
C. baylei Sarkar, 1955
C. barrabei Sarkar, 1955
C. bispinatus Reynés, 1876 - nomen dubium
C. bituberculatus D'Orbigny, 1842 - nomen dubium
C. coniferus Busnardo in Busnardo et al., 2003
C. curnieri Ropolo, 1992
?C. delessei Reynés, 1876
C. duvalii Léveillé, 1837
C. gagarini Dimitrova, 1967
C. heterocostatus Mandov, 1976
C. hildiensiformis Roch, 1930
C. inermis Sarkar, 1955
C. irregularis Dimitrova, 1967
C. karakaschi Sarkar, 1955
C. koechliniformis Sarkar, 1955
C. krenkeli Sarkar, 1955
C. lorioli Matheron, 1880
C. loryi Sarkar, 1955
C. mandovi Avram, 1995
C. matsumotoi Sarkar, 1955
?C. monotuberculatus Avram, 2002 - nomen nudum
C. monsalvensis Etayo-Serna, 1968
?C. mundum Renngarten, 1951 - nomen nudum
C. panescorii Astier, 1851 - nomen dubium
C. piveteaui Sarkar, 1955
?C. portarum Etayo-Serna, 1968
C. primitivus Reboulet, 1996
C. ramkrishnai Sarkar, 1955
C. rodighieri Dimitrova, 1967
C. sahnii Sarkar, 1955
C. schindewolfi Sarkar, 1955
C. shibaae Sarkar, 1955
C. shibaniae Sarkar, 1955
C. sinzowi Karakasch, 1907
C. sornayi Sarkar, 1955
C. stahleckeri Sarkar, 1955
C. tehamaensis Anderson, 1938
?C. tenuilobatus von Koenen, 1902
C. vialii Sarkar, 1955
C. villiersianus D'Orbigny, 1842
C. vishnui Sarkar, 1955

Description
Crioceratites duvalii, on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris

Crioceratites is coiled in an open, normally equiangular spiral with an oval or subquadrate whorl section. The surface is banded by fine, dense, rounded ribbing sectioned by periodically spaced thick and often spinose ribs.
Distribution

Crioceratites fossils have been found in Lower Cretaceous Valanginian-Barremanian, sediments in Europe, Africa, Asia, North America and South America; Argentina, Chile and Colombia (Paja Formation).
References

Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "Sepkoski's Online Genus Database". Retrieved 2014-05-28.
"Paleobiology Database - Crioceratites". Retrieved 2016-08-16.

Klein, J. et al. FOSSILIUM CATALOGUS I:ANIMALIA Pars 144, Lower Cretaceous Ammonites III Bochianitoidea, Protancyloceratoidea, Ancyloceratoidea, Ptychoceratoidea, 2007.