Grammoceras (ammonite)

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Hildoceratidae

Alternative spellings: Arieticeras (Grammoceras), Harpoceras (Grammoceras)

Synonym: Costigrammoceras Buckman 1926

Parent taxon: Grammoceratinae according to M. K. Howarth 2013

See also Bécaud 2006, Blau and Meister 1991 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Catulloceras, Dumortieria, Hudlestonia, Phlyseogrammoceras, Physeogrammoceras, Pleydellia, Podagrosites, Pseudogrammoceras, Pseudolillia, Shakraceras, Troitsaia, Yakounia

Subtaxa: Grammoceras normanianum Grammoceras penestriatulum Grammoceras striatulum Grammoceras thouarsense Grammoceras timorense

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Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

• Jurassic of Bulgaria (1 collection), Canada (13: British Columbia, Yukon), Chile (2), France (21), Germany (4), Hungary (10), Indonesia (1), Luxembourg (3), the Russian Federation (3), Slovakia (1), Spain (4), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), the United Kingdom (5)

Total: 69 collections including 91 occurrences

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