Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae
Synonyms: Calycoceras (Metacalycoceras) Spath 1926, Metacalycoceras Spath 1926
Parent taxon: Acanthoceratinae according to M. L. Guendouz et al. 2022
See also Ahmad et al. 2013, Barroso-Barcenilla 2004, Cobban 1972, Cooper 1978, Gale et al. 2018, Kellum and Robinson 1963, Kennedy 1994, Kennedy et al. 1996, Kennedy 2013, Kennedy et al. 1996, Kennedy and Jolkicev 2004, Kennedy and Simmons 1991, Matsumoto 1959, Matsumoto and Skwarko 1991, Matsumoto and Skwarko 1993, Sepkoski 2002, Sharifi et al. 2016 and Zaborski 1985
Sister taxa: Acanthoceras, Acompsoceras, Alzadites, Benueites, Conlinoceras, Cunningtoniceras, Eucalycoceras, Kastanoceras, Kennediella, Kunnamiceras, Microsulcatoceras, Nebraskites, Neocardioceras, Nigericeras, Paraconlinoceras, Plesiacanthoceratoides, Prohauericeras, Protacanthoceras, Pseudocalycoceras, Pseudovascoceras, Quitmaniceras, Sumitomoceras, Tarrantoceras, Thomelites, Watinoceras
Subtaxa: Calycoceras (Calycoceras) Calycoceras (Conlinoceras) Calycoceras (Gentoniceras) Calycoceras (Newboldiceras) Calycoceras (Proeucalycoceras) Calycoceras boulei Calycoceras spinosum
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Algeria (1 collection), Angola (2), Antarctica (4), Brazil (1), Bulgaria (11), Canada (1: British Columbia), Egypt (4), France (9), Germany (3), India (4), Iran (1), Japan (3), Jordan (2), Libya (2), Madagascar (1), Mexico (1), Mozambique (2), Nigeria (2), Oman (1), Papua New Guinea (4), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (2), Tunisia (2), the United Kingdom (15), United States (44: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Kansas, Minnesota, New Mexico, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Wyoming)
Total: 123 collections including 156 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
Click image to enlarge. Click to access iDigBio record.