Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae
Full reference: W. J. Kennedy and W. A. Cobban. 1990. Cenomanian micromorphic ammonites from the western interior of the USA. Palaeontology 33:379-422
Parent taxon: Mammitinae according to C. W. Wright et al. 1996
See also Barroso-Barcenilla 2007 and Kennedy and Cobban 1990
Sister taxa: Buccinammonites, Buchiceras, Dunveganoceras, Fikaites, Mammites, Metasigaloceras, Metoicoceras, Mitonia, Nannometoicoceras, Parabuchiceras, Paracompsoceras, Plesiacanthoceras, Praemetoicoceras, Pseudoaspidoceras, Rhamphidoceras, Spathites, Texacanthoceras
Subtaxa: Cryptometoicoceras mite
Type: Cryptometoicoceras mite
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of United States (2: Montana, Wyoming collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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