Cleoniceras overbecki Imlay 1960 (ammonite)

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Cleoniceratidae

Full reference: R. W. Imlay. 1960. Early Cretaceous (Albian) ammonites from the Chitna Valley and Talkeetna Mountains, Alaska. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 354(D):87-114

Belongs to Cleoniceras according to R. W. Imlay 1960

Sister taxa: Cleoniceras (Anacleoniceras), Cleoniceras (Cleoniceras), Cleoniceras (Neosaynella), Cleoniceras cleon, Cleoniceras dilleri, Cleoniceras schlaudti

Type specimen: USNM 130141, a shell. Its type locality is Alaska, Kennicott Formation, USGS Mes. loc. 9492, which is in an Albian marginal marine sandstone in Alaska.

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 38.0

Distribution: found only at Alaska, Kennicott Formation, USGS Mes. loc. 9492

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