Mantelliceras phoenixense Anderson 1958 (ammonite)

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae

Full reference: F. M. Anderson. 1958. Upper Cretaceous of the Pacific Coast. Geological Society of America Memoir 71:1-378

Belongs to Mantelliceras according to F. M. Anderson 1958

Sister taxa: Mantelliceras budaense, Mantelliceras camachoense, Mantelliceras cantianum, Mantelliceras charlestoni, Mantelliceras couloni, Mantelliceras dixoni, Mantelliceras indicum, Mantelliceras lecontei, Mantelliceras lymense, Mantelliceras mantelli, Mantelliceras nitidum, Mantelliceras picteti, Mantelliceras portalesi, Mantelliceras saxbii, Mantelliceras tuberculatum

Type specimen: CAS 61816.01, a shell. Its type locality is Forty-nine mine, south of Phoenix (Cenomanian blocks), which is in a Cenomanian marine siliciclastic in Oregon.

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 100.0

Distribution: found only at Forty-nine mine, south of Phoenix (Cenomanian blocks)

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