Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae
Alternative spelling: Metoecoceras
Parent taxon: Mammitinae according to M. L. Guendouz et al. 2022
See also Barroso-Barcenilla 2004, Barroso-Barcenilla 2007, Chancellor 1982, Cooper 1978, Kennedy and Cobban 1990, Meister et al. 1992, Sepkoski 2002 and Wright et al. 1996
Sister taxa: Buccinammonites, Buchiceras, Cryptometoicoceras, Dunveganoceras, Fikaites, Mammites, Metasigaloceras, Mitonia, Nannometoicoceras, Parabuchiceras, Paracompsoceras, Plesiacanthoceras, Praemetoicoceras, Pseudoaspidoceras, Rhamphidoceras, Spathites, Texacanthoceras
Subtaxa: Metoicoceras bergquisti Metoicoceras crassicostae Metoicoceras geslinianum Metoicoceras gibbosum Metoicoceras latoventer Metoicoceras mosbyense Metoicoceras muelleri Metoicoceras praecox Metoicoceras swallovi
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Algeria (2 collections), Angola (1), Brazil (1), Canada (1: Alberta), France (1), Germany (7), Kyrgyzstan (1), Libya (1), Mexico (3), Niger (1), Nigeria (1), Spain (3), the United Kingdom (2), United States (69: Arizona, Colorado, Minnesota, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, Texas, Utah, Wyoming), Venezuela (1)
Total: 95 collections including 107 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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