Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Brancoceratidae
Synonyms: Inflaticeras Stieler 1920, Pagoceras van Hoepen 1951
Parent taxon: Mortoniceratinae according to G. M. El Qot 2018
See also Arkadiev et al. 2000, Cooper and Kennedy 1979, Förster 1975, Haas 1942, Kennedy 2005, Kennedy et al. 1998, Kennedy et al. 2008, Kennedy and Latil 2007, Mosavinia et al. 2007, Renz 1982, Sepkoski 2002, Sharifi et al. 2016, Szives 2007, Whitehouse 1926, Wright 1952 and Wright et al. 1996
Sister taxa: Algericeras, Arestoceras, Elobiceras, Euhystrichoceras, Goodhallites, Neoharpoceras, Pervinquieria, Prohysteroceras
Subtaxa: Inflaticeras evolutum Mortoniceras (Angolaites) Mortoniceras (Boeseites) Mortoniceras (Deiradoceras) Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) Mortoniceras (Rusoceras) Mortoniceras (Subschloenbachia) Mortoniceras equidistans Mortoniceras gainesana Mortoniceras leonense Mortoniceras scobinum
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Angola (28 collections), Armenia (1), Australia (1), Belgium (1), Canada (5: British Columbia), Colombia (21), Ecuador (1), Egypt (4), Equatorial Guinea (1), France (35), Germany (1), Iran (3), Japan (2), Madagascar (10), Mexico (2), Mozambique (6), Nigeria (14), North Atlantic (1), South Africa (4), Spain (3), Switzerland (3), Ukraine (2), the United Kingdom (3), United States (26: California, New Mexico, Texas), Venezuela (4), Virgin Islands (1)
Total: 183 collections including 298 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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