Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Gattendorfiidae
Full reference: J. Bockwinkel and V. Ebbighausen. 2006. A new ammonoid fauna from the Gattendorfia-Eocanites Genozone of the Anti-Atlas (Early Carboniferous; Morocco). Fossil Record 9(1):87-129
Belongs to Acutimitoceras according to J. Bockwinkel and V. Ebbighausen 2006
Sister taxa: Acutimitoceras (Stockumites), Acutimitoceras acutum, Acutimitoceras hilarum, Acutimitoceras hollardi, Acutimitoceras intermedium, Acutimitoceras mfisense, Acutimitoceras occidentale, Acutimitoceras subbilobatum
Type specimen: MfN MB.C.3828.1, a shell. Its type locality is Jebel Debouaa, Mfis, Bed 9, Tafilalt, Anti-Atlas, which is in a Tournaisian coastal shale in Morocco.
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 13.8
Distribution: found only at Jebel Debouaa, Mfis, Bed 9, Tafilalt, Anti-Atlas
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