Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae
Full reference: P. M. P. Zaborski. 1993. Some new and rare upper cretaceous ammonites from north-eastern Nigeria. Journal of African Earth Sciences (and the Middle East) 17(3):359-371
Parent taxon: Mammitinae according to M. L. Guendouz et al. 2022
See also Sepkoski 2002 and Zaborski 1993
Sister taxa: Buccinammonites, Buchiceras, Cryptometoicoceras, Dunveganoceras, Mammites, Metasigaloceras, Metoicoceras, Mitonia, Nannometoicoceras, Parabuchiceras, Paracompsoceras, Plesiacanthoceras, Praemetoicoceras, Pseudoaspidoceras, Rhamphidoceras, Spathites, Texacanthoceras
Subtaxa: Fikaites laffitei Fikaites subtuberculatus Fikaites varicostatus
Type: Fikaites varicostatus
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Algeria (4 collections)
Total: 4 collections including 6 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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