Rubroceras Cobban et al. 1989 (ammonite)

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Vascoceratidae

Full reference: W. A. Cobban, S. C. Hook, and W. J. Kennedy. 1989. Upper Cretaceous rocks and ammonite faunas of southwestern New Mexico. New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Memoir 45:1-137

Parent taxon: Vascoceratidae according to C. W. Wright et al. 1996

See also Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Ezilloella, Microdiphasoceras, Pseudoneoptychites, Pseudotissotiinae, Vascoceratinae

Subtaxa: Rubroceras alatum

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Type: Rubroceras alatum

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Egypt (1 collection), United States (2: Arizona, New Mexico)

Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence

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