Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Coilopoceratidae
Full reference: W. A. Cobban and S. C. Hook. 1980. The Upper Cretaceous (Turonian) ammonite family Coilopoceratidae Hyatt in the Western Interior of the United States. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 1192:1-28
Belongs to Coilopoceras according to P. L. Sealey and S. G. Lucas 2019
See also Cobban and Hook 1980 and Meister et al. 1992
Sister taxa: Coilopoceras colleti, Coilopoceras discoideum, Coilopoceras grossouvrei, Coilopoceras hyatti, Coilopoceras jenksi, Coilopoceras newelli, Coilopoceras requienianum, Coilopoceras springeri, Coilopoceras zihoricum
Type specimen: USNM 275920, a shell. Its type locality is USGS Mesozoic D2055, Cebollita Mesa, Cibola, which is in a Turonian marine shale in the Mancos Shale Formation of New Mexico.
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Niger (3 collections), United States (11: New Mexico)
Total: 14 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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