Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Brancoceratidae

Full reference: F. H. McLearn. 1972. Ammonoids of the lower Cretaceous sandstone member of the Haida Formation, Skidgate Inlet, Queen Charlotte Islands, western British Columbia. Geological Bulletin of Canada Bulletin 188:1-78

Belongs to Mortoniceras (Styphloceras) according to F. H. McLearn 1972

Sister taxa: Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) aequatorealis, Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) albense, Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) arietiforme, Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) densecostatum, Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) evolutum, Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) fallax, Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) fissicostatum, Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) inflatum, Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) kiliani, Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) multicostatum, Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) nanum, Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) nodosocostatum, Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) ornatum, Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) pachys, Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) potternense, Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) quadrinodosum, Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) recticostatum, Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) subrotundum, Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) vespertinus, Mortoniceras (Styphloceras) lowrii

Type specimen: GSC 21246, a shell

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Loc. A18, Bearskin Bay (A) [Lower Sandstone Mbr, Haida Fm] (Cretaceous of British Columbia)

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