Wrightoceras Temporal range: Turonian
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Genus: | Wrightoceras Reyment 1954
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Wrightoceras is an extinct genus of cephalopod, belonging to the Ammonite subclass, that lived during the Turonian epoch of the Late Cretaceous.[2]
Fossils of Wrightoceras have been found in Brazil, Colombia (La Frontera Formation),[3] Egypt, Gabon, Mexico, Morocco, Nigeria, Oman, Peru, Tunisia, United States (Texas), and Venezuela.[1]