{{Short description|Genus of molluscs (fossil)}} {{distinguish|Vericeras}} {{Automatic taxobox |fossil_range = {{fossil range|Hettangian|Sinemurian|ref=<ref name="Sepkoski Ceph">{{cite journal|last=Sepkoski |first=Jack |title=A compendium of fossil marine animal genera (Cephalopoda entry) | journal=Bulletins of American Paleontology |volume=363 |pages=1–560 | year=2002 | url=http://strata.geology.wisc.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=231&rank=class |access-date=2017-10-18 |url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160225225905/http://strata.geology.wisc.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=231&rank=class | archive-date=2016-02-25 }}</ref>}} |image = Vermiceras bristol museum.JPG |image_caption =''Vermiceras scylla'' fossil |taxon = Vermiceras |authority = Hyatt, 1889 |subdivision_ranks = Species |subdivision = See text |synonyms = * ''Metophioceras'' * ''Protocymbites'' * ''Gyrophioceras'' * ''Paracaloceras'' }}
'''''Vermiceras''''' is an ammonite that belongs to the order Ammonitida.<ref name="paleodb">{{cite web | title= Paleobiology Database - Vermiceras | url = https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=15787| access-date = 2017-10-19 }}</ref> Its shell is evolute and is covered in nonbranching ribs. Its whorls do not increase in size very fast, but there are many revolutions on its shell, which is fairly narrow. It has a sharp ventral keel and a diameter of about 5.2 centimeters (2 inches). It lived in the Early Jurassic.
==Subgenera and species== * ''V. (=Metophioceras) galaczi'' * ''V. (=Metophioceras) rotarium'' * ''V. (=Metophioceras) rotticus'' * ''V. (=Metophioceras) trigonatum'' * ''V. (=Protocymbites) azzouzi'' * ''V. densicostatum'' * '''''V. (Gyrophioceras)''''' ** ''V. (G.) mineralense'' ** ''V. (G.) morganense'' ** ''V. (G.) praespiratissimum'' ** ''V. (G.) supraspiratum'' * '''''V. (Paracaloceras)''''' ** ''V. (P.) concavum'' ** ''V. (P.) coregonense'' ** ''V. (P.) multicostatum'' ** ''V. (P.) rursicostatum'' ** ''V. (P.) varaense''
==References== ;Notes {{Reflist}} ;Bibliography * Moore, Raymond Cecil., Alfred George. Fischer, and Cecil Gordon. Lalicker. ''Invertebrate Fossils''. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1952. Print. {{ISBN|9780070430204}}
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Category:Ammonitida genera Category:Early Jurassic ammonites Category:Arietitidae
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