Cephalopoda - Orthocerida - Baltoceratidae
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: Baltoceratidae according to R. E. Crick 1981
See also Flower 1964 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Amsleroceras, Annbactroceras, Bactroceras, Belloceras, Castelloceras, Cochlioceras, Cyrtobaltoceras, Endorioceras, Eosomichelinoceras, Hedstroemoceras, Microbaltoceras, Ogygoceras, Rhabdiferoceras, Rhabdiferous, Semiannuloceras, Sinocochleoceras, Veneficoceras
Subtaxa: Metabaltoceras fusiforme Metabaltoceras minutum
Type: Metabaltoceras fusiforme
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Ordovician of United States (3: New Mexico, New York collections)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
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