Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae
Full reference: W. A. Cobban. 1988. Tarrantoceras Stephenson and related ammonoid genera from Cenomanian (Upper Cretaceous) rocks in Texas and the western interior of the United States. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 1473:1-30
Belongs to Neocardioceras according to W. A. Cobban 1988
Sister taxa: Neocardioceras juddii, Neocardioceras laevigatum, Neocardioceras minutum, Neocardioceras transiens, Neocardioceras uptonense, Neocardioceras woodwardi
Type specimen: USNM 400832, a shell. Its type locality is USGS Mesozoic D7410, Eldorado Springs, which is in a Cenomanian marine shale in the Greenhorn Limestone Formation of Colorado.
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution: found only at USGS Mesozoic D7410, Eldorado Springs
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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