Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Diplomoceratidae
Synonym: Chesapeakella Kennedy and Cobban 1993 [replaced name]
Full reference: W. J. Kennedy and W. A. Cobban. 1998. Chesapeakiceras, new name for Chesapeakella Kennedy and Cobban, 1993 (September 14), not Chesapeakella Campbell, 1993 (June 13). Journal of Paleontology 72:403
Parent taxon: Diplomoceratinae according to M. Gane et al. 2016
See also Kennedy and Cobban 1993, Kennedy and Cobban 1998 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Diplomoceras, Glyptoxoceras, Lewyites, Neancyloceras, Neocrioceras, Neoglyptoxoceras, Scalarites
Subtaxa: Chesapeakiceras nodatum
Type: Chesapeakella nodatum
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of United States (3: Delaware collections)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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