Dakeoceras champlainense Kröger and Landing 2007 (mollusk)

Cephalopoda - Ellesmerocerida - Ellesmeroceratidae

Full reference: B. Kröger and E. Landing. 2007. The Earliest Ordovician Cephalopods of Eastern Laurentia - Ellesmerocerids of the Tribes Hill Formation, Eastern New York. Journal of Paleontology 81(5):841-857

Belongs to Dakeoceras according to B. Kröger and E. Landing 2007

Sister taxa: Dakeoceras corniculum, Dakeoceras dilatatum, Dakeoceras divergens, Dakeoceras gracilis, Dakeoceras harrisi, Dakeoceras magnisiphonatum, Dakeoceras mutabile, Dakeoceras normale, Dakeoceras perretrorsum, Dakeoceras retrorsum, Dakeoceras reversum, Dakeoceras subcurvatum, Dakeoceras undulatum

Type specimen: NYSM 17316. Its type locality is NYSM locality 5898, which is in a Skullrockian shallow subtidal wackestone in the Tribes Hill Formation of New York.

Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Distribution: found only at NYSM locality 5898

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