Cephalopoda - Orthocerida - Sactorthoceratidae
Full reference: R. H. Flower. 1964. The Nautiloid Order Ellesmeroceratida (Cephalopoda). State Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Memoir 12:234 p.
Parent taxon: Sactorthoceratidae according to B. Kröger et al. 2007
See also Crick 1981, Flower 1964, Frey 1995, Sepkoski 2002 and Zhuravleva 1994
Sister taxa: Braulioceras, Centroonoceras, Glenisteroceras, Leptoplatophrenoceras, Murrayoceras, Sactorthoceras, Scipioceras, Sigmocycloceras, Wennanoceras, Wolungoceras
Subtaxa: Cartersoceras noveboracense Cartersoceras popei Cartersoceras shideleri
Type: Cartersoceras shideleri
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Ordovician of United States (3: Kentucky, New York, Tennessee collections)
Total: 3 collections including 5 occurrences
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