''Fagesia'' is a small, subglobular

ammonite Ammonoids are extinct, (typically) coiled-shelled cephalopods comprising the subclass Ammonoidea. They are more closely related to living octopuses, squid, and cuttlefish (which comprise the clade Coleoidea) than they are to nautiluses (family N ...

(suborder

Ammonitina Ammonitina comprises a diverse suborder of Ammonoidea, ammonite cephalopods that lived during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods of the Mesozoic Era. They are excellent index fossils, and it is often possible to link the rock layer in which the ...

) belonging to the vascoceratid family of the Acanthocerataceae that lived during the

Turonian The Turonian is, in the International Commission on Stratigraphy, ICS' geologic timescale, the second age (geology), age in the Late Cretaceous epoch (geology), Epoch, or a stage (stratigraphy), stage in the Upper Cretaceous series (stratigraphy), ...

stage of the

Late Cretaceous The Late Cretaceous (100.5–66 Ma) is the more recent of two epochs into which the Cretaceous Period is divided in the geologic time scale. Rock strata from this epoch form the Upper Cretaceous Series. The Cretaceous is named after ''cre ...

, 92–88 Ma ago. The shell of ''Fagesia'' is about 9.5 cm (3.47 in) in diameter, typically with blunt umbilical tubercles from which spring 2 or three ribs each, but which are lost in the late growth stage. The suture is ammonitic with long spikey lobes and saddles with rounded subelements.

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Fagesia catinus ''Fagesia'' is a small, subglobular ammonite (suborder Ammonitina) belonging to the vascoceratid family of the Acanthocerataceae that lived during the Turonian stage of the Late Cretaceous, 92–88 Ma ago. The shell of ''Fagesia'' is about 9. ...

'' Mantell 1822 -

Loma Gorda Formation The Loma Gorda Formation (, Kl, Kslg) is a fossiliferous geological formation of the Upper Magdalena Valley (VSM) and surrounding Central and Eastern Ranges of the Colombian Andes, extending from Cundinamarca in the north to Huila and easternm ...

, Colombia * †'' Fagesia fleuryi'' Pervinquière 1907 * †'' Fagesia peroni'' Pervinquière 1907 * †'' Fagesia pervinquieri'' Bose 1920 * †''

Fagesia rudra ''Fagesia rudra'' is a small, subglobular ammonite (suborder Ammonitina) belonging to the vascoceratid family. This species lived during the Turonian The Turonian is, in the International Commission on Stratigraphy, ICS' geologic timescale, t ...

'' Stoliczka 1865 * †''

Fagesia spheroidalis ''Fagesia'' is a small, subglobular ammonite (suborder Ammonitina) belonging to the Vascoceratidae, vascoceratid family of the Acanthocerataceae that lived during the Turonian stage of the Late Cretaceous, 92–88 Ma ago. The shell of ''Fagesi ...

'' Pervinquière 1907 * †''

Fagesia superstes ''Fagesia superstes'' is a small, subglobular ammonite (suborder Ammonitina) belonging to the vascoceratid family. This species lived during the Turonian The Turonian is, in the International Commission on Stratigraphy, ICS' geologic timescal ...

'' Kossmat 1897 * †''

Fagesia tevesthensis ''Fagesia'' is a small, subglobular ammonite (suborder Ammonitina) belonging to the vascoceratid family of the Acanthocerataceae that lived during the Turonian stage of the Late Cretaceous, 92–88 Ma ago. The shell of ''Fagesia'' is about 9. ...

'' Peron 1896

Distribution

Fossils of ''Fagesia'' have been found in Brazil, Colombia (

El Colegio El Colegio () is a municipality and town of Colombia Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country primarily located in South America with Insular region of Colombia, insular regions in North America. The Colombian mainland ...

, Cundinamarca, La Frontera ( Cundinamarca, Huila and Boyacá),Blanco et al., 2004, p.26 and

Aipe Aipe is a town and municipality in the Huila Department, Colombia. It is located on the west bank of the Magdalena River in the Central Ranges of the Colombian Andes at altitudes between . Aipe borders Natagaima, Ataco and Planadas of the depar ...

, Huila),Patarroyo, 2011 Egypt, France, Mexico, Morocco, Nigeria, Oman, Romania, the Russian Federation, Tunisia, United States (Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas), and Venezuela.''Fagesia''
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