Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Coilopoceratidae
Full reference: A. von Koenen. 1898. Nachtrag zu Ueber Fossilien der unteren Kreide am Ufer des Mungo in Kamerun. Abhandlungen der Königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, Mathematisch-Physikalische Klasse. Neue Folge 1:49-65
Belongs to Hoplitoides according to G. R. Chancellor et al. 1994
See also Reyment 1955, Riedel 1933, Solger 1904 and von Koenen 1898
Sister taxa: Hoplitoides crassicostatus, Hoplitoides gibbosulus, Hoplitoides ingens, Hoplitoides koeneni, Hoplitoides latefundatus, Hoplitoides mirabilis, Hoplitoides sandovalensis, Hoplitoides solgeri, Hoplitoides wohltmanni
Type specimen: Its type locality is Elephantenbank, Mungo River, which is in a Turonian carbonate limestone in the Mungo River Formation of Cameroon
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Cameroon (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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