Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Mojsisovicsiidae
Alternative spelling: Oxitropidoceras
Synonym: Pseudophacoceras Spath 1921 [objective synonym]
Parent taxon: Mojsisovicsiinae according to G. M. El Qot 2018
See also Benavides-Caceres 1956, Cooper 1982, Förster 1975, Kennedy and Klinger 2011, Kummel 1948, Reyment 1955, Sepkoski 2002 and Wright et al. 1996
Sister taxa: Dipoloceras, Dipoloceroides, Falloticeras, Mirapelia, Mojsisovicsia, Mortoniceratoides, Appudiceras
Subtaxa: Oxytropidoceras (Adkinsites) Oxytropidoceras (Benavidesites) Oxytropidoceras (Manuaniceras) Oxytropidoceras (Oxytropidoceras) Oxytropidoceras (Venezoliceras) Oxytropidoceras aroeirium Oxytropidoceras carbonarium Oxytropidoceras howei Oxytropidoceras peruvianum Oxytropidoceras roissyanus
Type: Ammonites roissyanus
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Angola (2 collections), Brazil (3), Colombia (40), Ecuador (2), Egypt (2), France (1), Madagascar (6), Mexico (6), Morocco (1), Mozambique (1), Nigeria (2), Peru (7), Puerto Rico (1), South Africa (14), Trinidad and Tobago (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (35: California, Kansas, Oregon, Texas), Venezuela (3)
Total: 128 collections including 249 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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