Cephalopoda - Ellesmerocerida - Ellesmeroceratidae
Full reference: R. H. Flower. 1964. The Nautiloid Order Ellesmeroceratida (Cephalopoda). State Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Memoir 12:234 p.
Belongs to Muriceras according to R. H. Flower 1964
Sister taxa: Muriceras anomalum, Muriceras curviseptatum, Muriceras gracile, Muriceras hebetum, Muriceras micromurus, Muriceras moderatum, Muriceras murus
Type specimen: RHF 855, a shell. Its type locality is Cooks Range (1st piloceroid zone), which is in a Demingian shallow subtidal lime mudstone in the Victorio Formation of New Mexico.
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Ordovician of United States (2: New Mexico collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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