Mortoniceras (Cantabrigites) cantabrigense Spath 1933 (ammonite)

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Brancoceratidae

Synonym: Komeceras lineatocostatum van Hoepen 1944

Belongs to Mortoniceras (Cantabrigites) according to R. Förster 1975

See also Kennedy et al. 1998, Kennedy et al. 2008 and Szives 2007

Sister taxa: Cantabrigites cantabrigense, Cantabrigites curvatum, Cantabrigites spinosum, Cantabrigites subsimplex

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 48.0

Distribution: found only at NE end of Lagoa Catuine, bed 3 (Cretaceous of Mozambique)

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