Mantelliceras portalesi Kellum and Mintz 1962 (ammonite)

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae

Full reference: L. B. Kellum and L. W. Mintz. 1962. Cenomanian ammonites from the Sierra de Tlahualilo, Coahuila, Mexico. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 13(10):267-287

Belongs to Mantelliceras according to L. B. Kellum and L. W. Mintz 1962

Sister taxa: Mantelliceras budaense, Mantelliceras camachoense, Mantelliceras cantianum, Mantelliceras charlestoni, Mantelliceras couloni, Mantelliceras dixoni, Mantelliceras indicum, Mantelliceras lecontei, Mantelliceras lymense, Mantelliceras mantelli, Mantelliceras nitidum, Mantelliceras phoenixense, Mantelliceras picteti, Mantelliceras saxbii, Mantelliceras tuberculatum

Type specimen: UMMP 44721, a shell. Its type locality is Loc. 61-98, Cuenca de Francisco [Indidura Fm], which is in a Cenomanian marine horizon in the Indidura Formation of Mexico.

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Loc. 61-98, Cuenca de Francisco [Indidura Fm]

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