Oxytropidoceras (Manuaniceras) falcatum Kennedy and Klinger 2011 (ammonite)

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Mojsisovicsiidae

Full reference: W. J. Kennedy and H. C. Klinger. 2011. Cretaceous faunas from Zululand and Natal, South Africa. The ammonite genus Oxytropidoceras Stieler, 1920. African Natural History 7:69-102

Belongs to Oxytropidoceras (Manuaniceras) according to W. J. Kennedy and H. C. Klinger 2011

Sister taxa: Manuaniceras supani, Oxytropidoceras (Manuaniceras) applanatum, Oxytropidoceras (Manuaniceras) manuanense, Oxytropidoceras (Manuaniceras) ornatum

Type specimen: SAM-PCZ19827, a shell. Its type locality is Environs of locality 144, Mkuze Game Reserve, which is in an Albian/Albian marine siliciclastic in the Mzinene Formation of South Africa.

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Environs of locality 144, Mkuze Game Reserve

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