Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae
Full reference: W. A. Cobban and G. R. Scott. 1972. Stratigraphy and ammonite fauna and the Graneros Shale and Greenhorn Limestone near Pueblo, Colorado. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 645:1-108
Parent taxon: Acanthoceratinae according to C. W. Wright et al. 1996
Sister taxa: Acanthoceras, Acompsoceras, Alzadites, Benueites, Calycoceras, Cunningtoniceras, Eucalycoceras, Kastanoceras, Kennediella, Kunnamiceras, Microsulcatoceras, Nebraskites, Neocardioceras, Nigericeras, Paraconlinoceras, Plesiacanthoceratoides, Prohauericeras, Protacanthoceras, Pseudocalycoceras, Pseudovascoceras, Quitmaniceras, Tarrantoceras, Thomelites, Watinoceras
Subtaxa: none
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of United States (19: Colorado, New Mexico, Texas collections), Venezuela (1)
Total: 20 collections including 24 occurrences
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