''Menuthiocrioceras'' is an

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 ...

genus from the

Early Cretaceous The Early Cretaceous (geochronology, geochronological name) or the Lower Cretaceous (chronostratigraphy, chronostratigraphic name) is the earlier or lower of the two major divisions of the Cretaceous. It is usually considered to stretch from 143.1 ...

belonging to the

Ancyloceratoidea Ancyloceratoidea, formerly Ancylocerataceae, is a superfamily of typically uncoiled and loosely coiled heteromorph Ammonoidea, ammonoids established by Alpheus Hyatt in 1900, that may contain as many as 11 families, depending on the classificat ...

. Fossils belonging to this genus were found in Madagascar and Indonesia.Klein, J. ''et al.'', 2007 FOSSILIUM CATALOGUS I:ANIMALIA Pars 144, Lower Cretaceous Ammonites III Bochianitoidea, Protancyloceratoidea, Ancyloceratoidea, Ptychoceratoidea.

Species

Species within the genus ''Menuthiocrioceras'' include: *''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

Ammonitida genera Crioceratitidae Early Cretaceous ammonites Ammonites of Africa Ammonites of Asia {{ammonitida-stub