Cephalopoda - Multiceratoidea - Bassleroceratidae
Full reference: E. O. Ulrich, A. F. Foerste, A. K. Miller and W. M. Furnish. 1944. Ozarkian and Canadian cephalopods, longicones and summary. Geological Society of America Special Paper 58:1-226
Parent taxon: Bassleroceratidae according to R. E. Crick 1981
See also Sepkoski 2002 and Ulrich et al. 1944
Sister taxa: Anguloceras, Avaoceras, Avoceras, Dwightoceras, Lawrenceoceras, Leptocyrtoceras, Onychoceras, Stylocyrtoceras
Subtaxa: Monogonoceras alabamense Monogonoceras magnisiphonatum Monogonoceras subrectum
Type: Monogonoceras alabamense
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Ordovician of United States (6: Alabama, Missouri, Virginia collections)
Total: 6 collections each including a single occurrence
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