Epicheloniceras Casey 1954 (ammonite)

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Douvilleiceratidae

Alternative spelling: Cheloniceras (Epicheloniceras)

Full reference: R. Casey. 1954. New genera and subgenera of Lower Cretaceous ammonites. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 44:106-115

Parent taxon: Cheloniceratinae according to J. Lehmann and M. F. Aly 2024

See also Casey 1954, El Qot 2018, Lehmann et al. 2020, Matsukawa 2021, Ovando-Figueroa et al. 2018, Sepkoski 2002 and Szives 2007

Sister taxa: Cheloniceras, Procheloniceras

Subtaxa: Epicheloniceras claudii Epicheloniceras orientale Epicheloniceras quadrituberculatum Epicheloniceras sinuosum Epicheloniceras subnodosocostatum Epicheloniceras tschernyschewi

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Type: Douvilleiceras tschernyschewi

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Azerbaijan (1 collection), Brazil (1), Colombia (1), Egypt (4), France (3), Georgia (1), Germany (1), Japan (3), Madagascar (2), Mexico (17), Morocco (1), Mozambique (2), the Russian Federation (1), the United Kingdom (6)

Total: 44 collections including 56 occurrences

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