Caseoceras obesum Flower 1964 (mollusk)

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 Caseoceras according to R. H. Flower 1964

Sister taxa: Caseoceras conicum, Caseoceras contractum, Caseoceras holtedahli, Caseoceras intermedium, Caseoceras nitidum, Caseoceras sequatchiense, Caseoceras subconicum

Type specimen: RHF 204, a shell. Its type locality is S of Blue Corners, Saratoga Co., which is in a Skullrockian shallow subtidal limestone in the Tribes Hill Formation of New York.

Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Distribution: found only at S of Blue Corners, Saratoga Co.

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