Rhaeboceras coloradoense Cobban 1987 (ammonite)

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Scaphitidae

Full reference: W. A. Cobban. 1987. The Upper Cretaceous ammonite Rhaeboceras Meek in the western interior of the United States. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 1477:1-15

Belongs to Rhaeboceras according to J. C. Grier et al. 1992

See also Cobban 1987

Sister taxa: Ammonites opalus, Rhaeboceras albertense, Rhaeboceras burkholderi, Rhaeboceras cedarense, Rhaeboceras halli, Rhaeboceras mullananum, Rhaeboceras subglobosum, Rhaeboceras whiteavesi

Type specimen: USNM 413044, a shell. Its type locality is USGS Mesozoic 16093, Reservoir No. 3, which is in a Campanian marine sandstone in the Pierre Shale Formation of Colorado.

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 70.5

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of United States (3: Colorado, Montana collections)

Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence

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