Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Arietitidae
Full reference: D. G. Taylor. 1998. Late Hettangian-early Sinemurian (Jurassic) ammonite biochronology of the western Cordillera, United States. Geobios 31:467-497
Belongs to Coroniceras according to D. G. Taylor 1998
Sister taxa: Arietites pseudospiralis, Coroniceras (Eucoroniceras), Coroniceras (Guexiceras), Coroniceras (Paracoroniceras), Coroniceras alcinoe, Coroniceras caprotinum, Coroniceras charlesi, Coroniceras deffneri, Coroniceras fergusoni, Coroniceras freboldi, Coroniceras gallicum, Coroniceras grantsvillense, Coroniceras involutum, Coroniceras kridion, Coroniceras luningense, Coroniceras lyra, Coroniceras multicostatum, Coroniceras oblongaries, Coroniceras planaries, Coroniceras rotiforme, Coroniceras subrotiforme, Pararnioceras alcinoiforme, Epammonites isis, Epammonites schloenbachi, Epammonites scunthorpense, Epammonites latisulcatus, Arnioceratoides spurius, Arnioceratoides hercynicum
Type specimen: CAS 66698.01, a shell. Its type locality is New York Canyon, Shoshone Mountains (C. volcanoense horizon), which is in a Bucklandi marine limestone in the Sunrise Formation of Nevada.
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 215.0
Distribution: found only at New York Canyon, Shoshone Mountains (C. volcanoense horizon)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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