Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae
Alternative spelling: Acanthoceras (Mammites)
Synonym: Schluetericeras Hyatt 1903
Parent taxon: Mammitinae according to W. J. Kennedy and A. S. Gale 2016
See also Barroso-Barcenilla 2004, Barroso-Barcenilla 2007, Benavides-Caceres 1956, Chancellor 1982, Chancellor et al. 1994, Cobban and Hook 1983, Ifrim and Stinnesbeck 2007, Kennedy 1994, Kennedy et al. 2008, Kennedy and Morris 2018, Kennedy et al. 1987, Meister et al. 1994, Sepkoski 2002, Wright et al. 1996 and Zaborski 1987
Sister taxa: Buccinammonites, Buchiceras, Cryptometoicoceras, Dunveganoceras, Fikaites, Metasigaloceras, Metoicoceras, Mitonia, Nannometoicoceras, Parabuchiceras, Paracompsoceras, Plesiacanthoceras, Praemetoicoceras, Pseudoaspidoceras, Rhamphidoceras, Spathites, Texacanthoceras
Subtaxa: Mammites afer Mammites mohavanensis Mammites mutabilis Mammites nodosoides Mammites powelli Mammites rancheriae
Type: Ammonites nodosoides
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Brazil (6 collections), Colombia (2), Egypt (6), France (6), Germany (4), Mexico (3), Morocco (1), Nigeria (4), Peru (3), Romania (1), Spain (2), Tunisia (4), United States (10: Arizona, California, New Mexico, Texas, Utah), Venezuela (3)
Total: 55 collections including 61 occurrences
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