Adamsoceras Flower 1957 (mollusk)

Cephalopoda - Actinocerida - Ormoceratidae

Full reference: R. H. Flower. 1957. The Ordovician Development of the Actinoceratida, with notes on Actinoceroid Morphology and Ordovician Stratigraphy. State Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Memoir 2:1-59

Parent taxon: Ormoceratidae according to H. Mutvei 2016

See also Crick 1981, Flower 1957 and Flower 1968

Sister taxa: Deiroceras, Metarmenoceras, Mstikhinoceras, Ormoceras, Orthonybyoceras, Parormoceras, Troedssonoceras

Subtaxa: Adamsoceras holmi Adamsoceras isabelae

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Type: Adamsoceras isabelae

Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Distribution:

• Ordovician of Norway (1 collection), Sweden (1)

• Whiterockian of Canada (1: Newfoundland and Labrador), United States (2: Nevada)

Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence

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