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 Vermiceras according to D. G. Taylor 1998
Sister taxa: Vermiceras (Gyrophioceras), Vermiceras (Paracaloceras), Vermiceras (Vermiceras), Vermiceras spiratissimum, Protocymbites azzouzi, Metophioceras gracile, Metophioceras galaczi, Metophioceras rotarium, Metophioceras janus, Metophioceras conybeari, Metophioceras trigonatum, Metophioceras bonnardii, Metophioceras rotticus
Type specimen: NWMNH 25034, a shell. Its type locality is New York Canyon, Shoshone Mountains (M. trigonatum assemblage), which is in a Bucklandi marine limestone in the Sunrise Formation of Nevada.
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution: found only at New York Canyon, Shoshone Mountains (M. trigonatum assemblage)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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