Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Ataxioceratidae
Alternative spelling: Virgatosphinctes (Lithacoceras)
Full reference: A. Hyatt. 1900. Cephalopoda. Textbook of Palaeontology 1:502-604
Parent taxon: Lithacoceratinae according to C. Salazar and W. Stinnesbeck 2016
See also Parent et al. 2011 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Danubisphinctes, Dorsoplanitoides, Franconitinae, Moravisphinctes, Pseudodiscosphinctes, Pseudosubplanites, Richterellinae, Usseliceras, Xenosphinctes, Zittelites
Subtaxa: Lithacoceras (Lithacoceras) Lithacoceras (Progeronia) Lithacoceras (Subplanites) Lithacoceras (Virgalithacoceras) Lithacoceras malarguense Lithacoceras mombassanum Lithacoceras sigali Lithacoceras soucadeauxi Lithacoceras ulmensis
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Jurassic of Algeria (5 collections), Antarctica (1), Canada (1: British Columbia), Chile (2), Cuba (1), France (7), Germany (6), Hungary (1), Madagascar (6), Romania (10), the Russian Federation (1), Saudi Arabia (1), Somalia (1), Spain (2), Switzerland (1), United States (1: Texas), Yemen (5)
Total: 52 collections including 101 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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