†family Prolyelliceratidae Latil et al. 2009 (ammonite)

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Prolyelliceratidae

Full reference: J.-L. Latil, E. Robert, and L. G. Bulot. 2009. New insights on the genus Prolyelliceras Spath, 1930 and the identity of Acanthoceras gevreyi Jacob, 1907 (Cephalopoda, Ammonitina). Neues Jahrbuch fur Mineralogie, Geologie und Palontologie, Abhandlungen 254(3):337-347

Parent taxon: Acanthoceratoidea according to J.-L. Latil et al. 2009

Sister taxa: Acanthoceratidae, Brancoceratidae, Cleoniceratidae, Coilopoceratidae, Collignoniceratidae, Flickiidae, Forbesiceratidae, Hystatoceratidae, Leymeriellidae, Lyelliceratidae, Mojsisovicsiidae, Peroniceratidae, Pseudotissotidae, Pseudotissotiidae, Sphenodiscidae, Tissotiidae, Vascoceratidae

Subtaxa: Prolyelliceras

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Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Colombia (11 collections), Mexico (1), Pakistan (1), Peru (11), Venezuela (1)

Total: 25 collections including 28 occurrences

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