Gaudryceras

Gaudryceras Temporal range:
Fossil of Gaudryceras species
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Cephalopoda
Order:	Ammonitida
Family:	Gaudryceratidae
Genus:	Gaudryceras de Grossouvre, 1894

Gaudryceras is an ammonite genus belonging to the family Gaudryceratidae.

These cephalopods were fast-moving nektonic carnivores. They lived in the Cretaceous period, from Albian to Maastrichtian stages (105.3 to 66.043 Ma).

Subgenera and species

Subg. Gaudryceras (Gaudryceras) de Grossouvre, 1894

Gaudryceras (Gaudryceras) alamedense (Smith, 1889)

Gaudryceras (Gaudryceras) aureum (Anderson, 1958)

Gaudryceras (Gaudryceras) cassisianum d'Orbigny, 1850

Gaudryceras (Gaudryceras) delvallense (Anderson, 1958)

Gaudryceras (Gaudryceras) denmanense (Whiteaves, 1903)

Gaudryceras (Gaudryceras) mitis Hauer, 1866

Gaudryceras (Gaudryceras) strictum Kennedy et al., 2007

Gaudryceras (Gaudryceras) texanum (Anderson, 1958)

Subg. Gaudryceras (Mesogaudryceras) Spath, 1927

Gaudryceras (Mesogaudryceras) leptonema Sharpe, 1855

Subg. Gaudryceras (Neogaudryceras) Shimizu, 1935

Gaudryceras (Neogaudryceras) pictum Yabe, 1903

Gaudryceras (Neogaudryceras) beantalyense Collignon, 1956

Gaudryceras (Neogaudryceras) denseplicatum Jimbo, 1894

Gaudryceras (Neogaudryceras) kayei Forbes, 1846

Gaudryceras (Neogaudryceras) makarovense Shigeta and Maeda, 2005

Gaudryceras (Neogaudryceras) seymouriense Macellari, 1986

Gaudryceras (Neogaudryceras) stefaninii Venzo, 1936

Gaudryceras (Neogaudryceras) tenuiliratum Yabe, 1903

Gaudryceras (Neogaudryceras) varagurense Kossmat, 1895

Gaudryceras (Neogaudryceras) varagurense patagonicum (Paulcke, 1907)

Gaudryceras (Neogaudryceras) varicostatum van Hoepen, 1921

Distribution

Fossils of species within this genus have been found in the Cretaceous sediments of Angola, Antarctica, Australia, Austria, Brazil, Chile, France, Germany, India, Japan, Madagascar, Mexico, New Zealand, Nigeria, Russia, South Africa, Spain and United States.