Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae
Full reference: W. J. Kennedy. 1988. Late Cenomanian Sciponoceras gracile Zone ammonite fauna in northeast Texas. Special Papers in Palaeontology 39:1-139
Parent taxon: Mammitinae according to Cooper 1998
See also Kennedy and Cobban 1990 and Wright et al. 1996
Sister taxa: Buccinammonites, Buchiceras, Cryptometoicoceras, Dunveganoceras, Fikaites, Mammites, Metasigaloceras, Metoicoceras, Mitonia, Parabuchiceras, Paracompsoceras, Plesiacanthoceras, Praemetoicoceras, Pseudoaspidoceras, Rhamphidoceras, Spathites, Texacanthoceras
Subtaxa: Nannometoicoceras acceleratum Nannometoicoceras glabrum Nannometoicoceras nanos
Type: Metoicoceras acceleratum
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of United States (5: Arizona, Montana, New Mexico, Texas collections)
Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence
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