Toxoceratoides karstenioides Vasicek and Skupien 2002 (ammonite)

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Acrioceratidae

Full reference: Z. Vasicek and P. Skupien. 2002. Notes on some rare Barremian/Aptian ancyloceratids from the Silesian Unit (Outer Western Carpathians, Czech Republic). Journal of the Czech Geological Society 47:65-74

Belongs to Toxoceratoides according to Z. Vasicek and P. Skupien 2002

Sister taxa: Toxoceratoides (Colomboceratoides), Toxoceratoides biplex, Toxoceratoides corae, Toxoceratoides greeni, Toxoceratoides haughtoni, Toxoceratoides karsteni, Toxoceratoides krenkeli, Toxoceratoides nagerai, Toxoceratoides rochi, Toxoceratoides royerianus, Toxoceratoides saulae, Toxoceratoides silesiacum, Toxoceratoides starrkingi, Toxoceratoides taylori

Type specimen: Its type locality is Kuncice pod Ondrejnikem, which is in an Aptian offshore claystone in the Tesin-Hradiste Formation of the Czech Republic

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Kuncice pod Ondrejnikem

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