Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Kossmaticeratidae
Full reference: P. Marshall. 1926. The Upper Cretaceous ammonites of New Zealand. Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand 56:129-210
Parent taxon: Kossmaticeratinae according to C. E. Macellari 1986
See also Henderson 1970, Kennedy and Klinger 1985, Lahsen and Charrier 1972 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Brahmaites, Grossouvrites, Gunnarites, Jacobites, Kossmaticeras, Neograhamites, Pseudokossmaticeras, Yokoyamaoceras
Subtaxa: Maorites angulocostatus Maorites densicostatus Maorites mackayi Maorites multiconstrictus Maorites pseudobhavani Maorites seymourianus Maorites subtilistriatus Maorites tenuicostatum Maorites tuberculatus Maorites weddelliensis
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Antarctica (121 collections), Argentina (1), Australia (9), Chile (6), New Zealand (7), South Africa (2)
Total: 146 collections including 163 occurrences
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