Cibolaites Cobban and Hook 1983 (ammonite)

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Collignoniceratidae

Full reference: W. A. Cobban and S. C. Hook. 1983. Mid-Cretaceous (Turonian) ammonite fauna from Fence Lake area of west-central New Mexico. New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources Memoir 41:1-50

Parent taxon: Collignoniceratinae according to W. J. Kennedy et al. 2001

See also Cobban and Hook 1983, Meister et al. 1992 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Collignoniceras, Collignonicerites, Gauthiericeras, Lecointriceras, Lymaniceras, Prionocyclites, Prionocycloceras, Prionocyclus, Reesidites, Subprionocyclus, Subprionotropis

Subtaxa: Cibolaites africaensis Cibolaites molenaari

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Type: Cibolaites molenaari

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Niger (1 collection), Tunisia (2), United States (10: Arizona, New Mexico)

Total: 13 collections each including a single occurrence

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