Mantelliceras cantianum Spath 1926 (ammonite)

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae

Synonym: Mantelliceras geyeri Collignon 1964

Belongs to Mantelliceras according to A. S. Gale et al. 2018

See also Kennedy 1994, Kennedy 2013, Kennedy and Morris 2018 and Mosavinia and Wilmsen 2011

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

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 21.5

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of France (8 collections), Germany (1), Iran (2), Japan (1), Madagascar (3), Tanzania (1), the United Kingdom (6), United States (1: Texas)

Total: 23 collections each including a single occurrence

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