Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Collignoniceratidae
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 Cibolaites according to W. J. Kennedy et al. 2001
See also Cobban and Hook 1983
Sister taxon: Cibolaites africaensis
Type specimen: USNM 328766, 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
Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 124.0
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of United States (4: Arizona, New Mexico collections)
Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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