Suttonoceras Miller and Youngquist 1947 (mollusk)

Cephalopoda - Oncocerida - Diestoceratidae

Full reference: A. K. Miller and W. Youngquist. 1947. Ordovician fossils from the southwestern part of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Journal of Paleontology 21(1):1-18

Parent taxon: Diestoceratidae according to R. E. Crick 1981

See also Sepkoski 2002 and Teichert et al. 1964

Sister taxa: Danoceras, Diestoceras, Dowlingoceras, Lyckholmoceras

Subtaxa: Suttonoceras rossorum

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Type: Suttonoceras rossorum

Ecology: fast-moving nektobenthic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Sutton Island (Ordovician of Nunavut)

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