Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Brancoceratidae
Alternative combinations: Ammonites inflatus, Mortoniceras (Pervinquieria) inflatum, Pervinquieria inflata, Schloenbachia inflata
Synonym: Mortoniceras (Pervinquieria) commune Spath 1932
Full reference: J. Sowerby. 1818. No. XXX in the mineral conchology of Great Britain; or colored figures and descriptions of those remains of testaceous animals or shells, which have been preserved at various times and depths in the Earth. The mineral conchology of Great Britain 3:1-194
Belongs to Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) according to G. M. El Qot 2018
See also Amédro et al. 2004, Besairie and Collignon 1972, Choffat 1888, Choffat 1905, Haas 1942, Kennedy and Latil 2007, Meunier 1888, Mosavinia et al. 2007, Spath 1932, Szajnocha 1885, Szives 2007 and Whitehouse 1926
Sister taxa: Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) aequatorealis, Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) albense, Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) arietiforme, Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) densecostatum, Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) evolutum, Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) fallax, Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) fissicostatum, Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) kiliani, Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) multicostatum, Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) nanum, Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) nodosocostatum, Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) ornatum, Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) pachys, Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) potternense, Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) quadrinodosum, Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) recticostatum, Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) subrotundum, Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) vespertinus, Mortoniceras (Styphloceras) lowrii, Mortoniceras (Styphloceras) downii
Subtaxa: Ammonites inflatus circumspinosus Pervinquieria inflata aequatorealis
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 221.9
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Angola (7 collections), Egypt (2), France (3), Iran (1), Madagascar (3), Mexico (2), United States (1: California)
Total: 19 collections including 22 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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