Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Arctoceratidae
Alternative spelling: Meekoceras (Submeekoceras)
Full reference: L. F. Spath. 1934. Catalogue of Fossil Cephalopoda in the British Museum (Natural History), Part IV, The Ammonoidea of the Trias. 1-521
Parent taxon: Arctoceratidae according to Y. Shigeta and H. D. Nguyen 2014
See also Brayard and Bucher 2008, Brayard et al. 2013, Chao 1959, Sepkoski 2002, Spath 1934 and Tozer 1981
Sister taxa: Arctoceras, Brayardites, Churkites, Escarguelites, Minersvillites, Nammalites, Nuetzelia, Truempyceras
Subtaxa: Submeekoceras hsuyuchieni Submeekoceras malayicum Submeekoceras meridionale Submeekoceras mushbachanum Submeekoceras patelliforme Submeekoceras rubyae Submeekoceras schalteggeri Submeekoceras strigatus Submeekoceras subhydaspis Submeekoceras tuberculatum Submeekoceras ussuriense
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Triassic of Afghanistan (2 collections), China (29), India (2), Indonesia (6), Oman (4), Pakistan (3), the Russian Federation (23), United States (7: California, Idaho, Utah), Vietnam (5)
Total: 81 collections including 88 occurrences
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