Acanthoceras chasca Benavides-Caceres 1956 (ammonite)

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae

Full reference: V.E. Benavides-Caceres. 1956. Cretaceous system in northern Peru. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 108(4):1-493

Belongs to Acanthoceras according to V.E. Benavides-Caceres 1956

Sister taxa: Acanthoceras (Alternacanthoceras), Acanthoceras amphibolum, Acanthoceras asiatica, Acanthoceras athabascense, Acanthoceras basseae, Acanthoceras bellense, Acanthoceras compitalis, Acanthoceras compressum, Acanthoceras flexuosum, Acanthoceras granerosense, Acanthoceras joserita, Acanthoceras jukesbrownei, Acanthoceras muldoonense, Acanthoceras pollocense, Acanthoceras rhotomagense, Acanthoceras robustum, Acanthoceras sangalense, Acanthoceras sarthacense, Acanthoceras sherborni, Acanthoceras vectense, Acanthoceras whitei

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 61.0

Distribution: found only at Bed 48, Section 4 - Celendín [Romirón Fm] (Cretaceous of Peru)

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