Cephalopoda - Ellesmerocerida - Ellesmeroceratidae
Alternative combination: Cyrtoceras vassarina
Belongs to Bassleroceras according to E. O. Ulrich et al. 1944
See also Kröger and Landing 2008
Sister taxa: Bassleroceras acinacellum, Bassleroceras alethes, Bassleroceras beekmanense, Bassleroceras bridgei, Bassleroceras champlainense, Bassleroceras dalevillense, Bassleroceras kayi, Bassleroceras kirbyi, Bassleroceras lasallense, Bassleroceras microscopium, Bassleroceras perseus, Bassleroceras smithbasinense, Bassleroceras spissiseptum, Bassleroceras tenuiculum, Bassleroceras triangulum
Type specimen: Its type locality is Rochdale, which is in a Stairsian shallow subtidal reef rocks in the Rochdale Formation of New York
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Ordovician of United States (2: New York collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
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