Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Dactylioceratidae
Alternative spelling: Coeloceras (Dactylioceras)
Synonyms: Anguidactylites Buckman 1926, Arcidactylites Buckman 1926, Athlodactylites Buckman 1927, Curvidactylites Buckman 1927, Koinodactylites Buckman 1927 [objective synonym], Leptodactylites Buckman 1926, Microdactylites, Nomodactylites Buckman 1927, Parvidactylites Buckman 1927, Peridactylites Buckman 1926, Planicoeloceras Venturi and Ferri 2001, Rakusites Guex 1971, Simplidactylites Buckman 1927, Toxodactylites Buckman 1926, Vermidactylites Buckman 1926, Xeinodactylites Buckman 1926
Parent taxon: Dactylioceratinae according to M. Benzaggagh et al. 2022
See also Arthur et al. 1993, Frebold 1970, Géczy and Meister 1998, Géczy and Szente 2006, Howarth 2013, Kutygin and Knyazev 2000 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Catacoeloceras, Collina, Nodicoeloceras, Peronoceras, Porpoceras, Reynesoceras, Septimaniceras, Zugodactylites
Subtaxa: Dactylioceras (Dactylioceras) Dactylioceras (Eodactylites) Dactylioceras (Iranodactylites) Dactylioceras (Orthodactylites) Dactylioceras alpestre Dactylioceras amplum Dactylioceras athleticum Dactylioceras boreum Dactylioceras commune Dactylioceras consimile Dactylioceras crassescens Dactylioceras crassifactum Dactylioceras crassiusculum Dactylioceras holandrei Dactylioceras kanense Dactylioceras praepositum Dactylioceras suntarense Dactylioceras temperatum Dactylioceras toxophorum Rakusites pruddeni
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Jurassic of Algeria (7 collections), Bulgaria (5), Canada (72: Alberta, British Columbia, Yukon), Chile (12), France (37), Germany (9), Greenland (5), Hungary (5), Indonesia (2), Iran (3), Italy (8), Japan (28), Morocco (9), the Russian Federation (3), Serbia and Montenegro (1), Slovakia (2), Spain (88), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (6), Switzerland (1), Tunisia (3), the United Kingdom (44), United States (15: Alaska, Nevada)
Total: 365 collections including 490 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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