Uptonia Buckman 1898 (ammonite)

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Polymorphitidae

Parent taxon: Polymorphitinae according to M. K. Howarth 2013

See also Bremer 1965, Donovan and Surlyk 2003, Frebold 1970, Meister and Friebe 2003, Sepkoski 2002 and Thomson and Smith 1992

Sister taxa: Gemmellaroceras, Jamesonites, Parinodiceras, Platypleuroceras, Polymorphites

Subtaxa: Uptonia angusta Uptonia bronni Uptonia costosa Uptonia dayiceroides Uptonia ignota Uptonia inaequicosta Uptonia involuta Uptonia jamesoni Uptonia lata Uptonia regnardi

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Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

• Jurassic of Argentina (1 collection), Austria (8), Canada (8: British Columbia), Chile (5), Denmark (1), France (66), Germany (1), Greenland (16), Hungary (3), Indonesia (1), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (1), Slovakia (1), Spain (3), Turkey (4), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (10)

Total: 131 collections including 171 occurrences

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