†Algericeras Spath 1925 (ammonite)

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Brancoceratidae

Synonym: Prionocycloides Spath 1925

Full reference: L. F. Spath. 1925. On upper Albian Ammonoidea from Portuguese East Africa, with an appendix on Upper Cretaceous ammonites from Maputaland. Annals of the Transvaal Museum 11(3):179-200

Parent taxon: Mortoniceratinae according to W. J. Kennedy and C. W. Wright 1981

See also Sepkoski 2002, Spath 1925 and Young 1979

Sister taxa: Arestoceras, Elobiceras, Euhystrichoceras, Goodhallites, Mortoniceras, Neoharpoceras, Pervinquieria, Prohysteroceras

Subtaxa: Algericeras (Sakondryella) Algericeras boghariense Algericeras proratum

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Type: Ammonites boghariensis

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Mexico (2 collections), Tunisia (1)

Total: 3 collections including 4 occurrences

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