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Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
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: Menuthiocrioceras
Name

Menuthiocrioceras Collignon, 1949
References

The Paleobiology Database Accessed on 11/29/08

Menuthiocrioceras is an ammonite genus from the Early Cretaceous belonging to the Ancyloceratoidea. Fossils belonging to this genus were found in Madagascar and Indonesia.[1][3]
Species

Species within the genus Menuthiocrioceras include:[3]

M. ampakabense Collignon, 1962
M. aontzyense Collignon, 1962
M. besairiei Collignon, 1949
M. colcanapi Collignon, 1962
M. compressum Skwarko & Thieuloy, 1989
M. hourcqui Collignon, 1949
M. irianense Skwarko & Thieuloy, 1989
M. kuntzi Collignon, 1962
M. lenoblei Collignon, 1949
M. mahafalense Collignon, 1962
M. sarkari Collignon, 1962
M. sornayi Collignon, 1962

References

Skwarko, S.K. & Thieuloy, J.-P. 1989. Early Barremian (Early Cretaceous) Mollusca from the western Irian Jaya, Indonesia. Publication of the Geological Research & Development Centre (paleontology series), 6: 26-43.
Wright, C. W. "Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L, Mollusca 4: Cretaceous Ammonoidea (with contributions by JH Calloman (sic) and MK Howarth)." Geological Survey of America and University of Kansas, Boulder, Colorado, and Lawrence, Kansas 362 (1996).
Klein, J. et al., 2007 FOSSILIUM CATALOGUS I:ANIMALIA Pars 144, Lower Cretaceous Ammonites III Bochianitoidea, Protancyloceratoidea, Ancyloceratoidea, Ptychoceratoidea.

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