Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae
Full reference: M. Collignon. 1937. Ammonites Cénomaniennes du sud–ouest de Madagascar. Annales géologiques du Service des Mines de Madagascar 8:29-72
Parent taxon: Acanthoceratinae according to A. S. Gale et al. 2018
See also Kennedy 1994, Kennedy 2013, Kennedy et al. 1988, Kennedy and Cobban 1990, Matsumoto and Skwarko 1993, Mosavinia and Wilmsen 2011, Sepkoski 2002 and Wright et al. 1996
Sister taxa: Acanthoceras, Acompsoceras, Alzadites, Benueites, Calycoceras, Conlinoceras, Eucalycoceras, Kastanoceras, Kennediella, Kunnamiceras, Microsulcatoceras, Nebraskites, Neocardioceras, Nigericeras, Paraconlinoceras, Plesiacanthoceratoides, Prohauericeras, Protacanthoceras, Pseudocalycoceras, Pseudovascoceras, Quitmaniceras, Tarrantoceras, Thomelites, Watinoceras
Subtaxa: Cunningtoniceras arizonense Cunningtoniceras cunningtoni Cunningtoniceras inerme Cunningtoniceras johnsonanum Cunningtoniceras johnsonianum Cunningtoniceras lonsdalei Cunningtoniceras meridionale Cunningtoniceras novimexicanum Cunningtoniceras roguense
Type: Ammonites cunningtoni
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Angola (4 collections), Australia (2), France (1), Iran (1), Kazakhstan (1), Madagascar (2), Nigeria (4), Papua New Guinea (1), Switzerland (1), Tunisia (1), the United Kingdom (4), United States (14: Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, Wyoming)
Total: 36 collections including 41 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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