Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae
Full reference: W. A. Cobban and S. C. Hook. 1983. Mid-Cretaceous (Turonian) ammonite fauna from Fence Lake area of west-central New Mexico. New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources Memoir 41:1-50
Belongs to Morrowites according to M. Wilmsen and E. Nagm 2014
See also Cobban and Hook 1983
Sister taxa: Morrowites depressus, Morrowites dixeyi, Morrowites mocamedensis, Morrowites wingi
Type specimen: USNM 328722, a shell. Its type locality is USGS Loc. D11208, Fence Lake [Mancos Shale], which is in a Turonian marine shale in the Mancos Shale Formation of New Mexico.
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Germany (1 collection), United States (3: New Mexico)
Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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