Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae
Full reference: W. J. Kennedy, W. A. Cobban, and S. C. Hook. 1988. Middle Cenomanian (Late Cretaceous) molluscan fauna from the base of the Boquillas Formation, Cerro de Muleros, Dona Ana County, New Mexico. New Mexico Bureau of Mines & Mineral Resources Bulletin 114:35-44
Belongs to Moremanoceras according to W. J. Kennedy and W. A. Cobban 1990
See also Kennedy et al. 1988
Sister taxa: Moremanoceras costatum, Moremanoceras elgini, Moremanoceras flexuosum, Moremanoceras montanaense, Moremanoceras scotti
Type specimen: USNM 416051, a shell. Its type locality is Cerro de Muleros, which is in a Cenomanian marine grainstone in the Boquillas Formation of New Mexico.
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 55.7
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of United States (2: Montana, New Mexico collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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