Microdiphasoceras Cobban et al. 1989 (ammonite)

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Vascoceratidae

Full reference: W. A. Cobban, S. C. Hook, and W. J. Kennedy. 1989. Upper Cretaceous rocks and ammonite faunas of southwestern New Mexico. New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Memoir 45:1-137

Parent taxon: Vascoceratidae according to C. W. Wright et al. 1996

Sister taxa: Ezilloella, Pseudoneoptychites, Pseudotissotiinae, Rubroceras, Vascoceratinae

Subtaxa: Microdiphasoceras novimexicanum

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Type: Microdiphasoceras novimexicanum

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at D11301. Big Burro Mountains (northwest side) (Cretaceous of New Mexico)

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