Onitshoceras Reyment 1954 (ammonite)

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae

Full reference: R. A. Reyment. 1954. Some new Upper Cretaceous ammonites from Nigeria. Colonial Geology and Mineral Resources 4(3):248-270

Parent taxon: Desmoceratinae according to W. J. Kennedy 2018

See also Kennedy 1984, Reyment 1954, Reyment 1955 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Burckhardtites, Damesites, Desmoceras, Desmophyllites, Microdesmoceras, Moremanoceras, Tragodesmoceroides

Subtaxa: Onitshoceras matsumotoi Onitshoceras ponsianum

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Type: Onitshoceras matsumotoi

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of France (2 collections), India (1), Nigeria (1)

Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence

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