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 Dakeoceras according to R. H. Flower 1964
Sister taxa: Dakeoceras champlainense, Dakeoceras corniculum, Dakeoceras dilatatum, Dakeoceras divergens, Dakeoceras gracilis, Dakeoceras harrisi, Dakeoceras magnisiphonatum, Dakeoceras normale, Dakeoceras perretrorsum, Dakeoceras retrorsum, Dakeoceras reversum, Dakeoceras subcurvatum, Dakeoceras undulatum
Type specimen: BEG 34764, a partial shell (partial phragmocone). Its type locality is 4 1/4 mi SW of Cypress Mills, which is in a Gasconadian shallow subtidal chert in the Tanyard Formation of Texas.
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution: found only at 4 1/4 mi SW of Cypress Mills
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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