Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae
Full reference: W. A. Cobban. 1972. New and little-known ammonites from the Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian and Turonian) of the western interior of the United States. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 699:1-24
Parent taxon: Mammitinae according to Cooper 1998
See also Cobban 1972, Kennedy et al. 1988 and Wright et al. 1996
Sister taxa: Buccinammonites, Buchiceras, Cryptometoicoceras, Dunveganoceras, Fikaites, Mammites, Metasigaloceras, Metoicoceras, Mitonia, Nannometoicoceras, Parabuchiceras, Plesiacanthoceras, Praemetoicoceras, Pseudoaspidoceras, Rhamphidoceras, Spathites, Texacanthoceras
Subtaxa: Paracompsoceras landisi
Type: Paracompsoceras landisi
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of United States (6: New Mexico collections)
Total: 6 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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