Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae
Synonyms: Alternacanthoceras Marcinowski 1979, Metacanthoplites Hyatt 1900
Full reference: M. Neumayr. 1875. Die Ammoniten der Kreide und die Systematik der Ammonitiden. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Geologischen Gesellschaft 27:854-942
Parent taxon: Acanthoceratinae according to A. S. Gale et al. 2018
See also Barroso-Barcenilla 2004, Benavides-Caceres 1956, Förster 1975, Kennedy 1994, Kennedy et al. 1996, Kennedy 2013, Kennedy et al. 1988, Kennedy and Jolkicev 2004, Matsumoto 1959, Matsumoto and Skwarko 1991, Matsumoto and Skwarko 1993, Mosavinia and Wilmsen 2011, Robert and Bulot 2005, Sepkoski 2002, Wright 1952, Wright et al. 1996 and Zaborski 1985
Sister taxa: Acompsoceras, Alzadites, Benueites, Calycoceras, Conlinoceras, Cunningtoniceras, Eucalycoceras, Kastanoceras, Kennediella, Kunnamiceras, Microsulcatoceras, Nebraskites, Neocardioceras, Nigericeras, Paraconlinoceras, Plesiacanthoceratoides, Prohauericeras, Protacanthoceras, Pseudocalycoceras, Pseudovascoceras, Quitmaniceras, Tarrantoceras, Thomelites, Watinoceras
Subtaxa: Acanthoceras (Alternacanthoceras) Acanthoceras amphibolum Acanthoceras asiatica Acanthoceras athabascense Acanthoceras basseae Acanthoceras bellense Acanthoceras chasca Acanthoceras compitalis Acanthoceras compressum Acanthoceras flexuosum Acanthoceras granerosense Acanthoceras joserita Acanthoceras jukesbrownei Acanthoceras muldoonense Acanthoceras pollocense Acanthoceras rhotomagense Acanthoceras robustum Acanthoceras sangalense Acanthoceras sherborni Acanthoceras vectense Acanthoceras whitei
Type: Ammonites rhotomagensis
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Australia (5 collections), Brazil (1), Bulgaria (2), Cameroon (1), Denmark (1), Egypt (2), France (13), Germany (25), India (1), Iran (2), Libya (1), Madagascar (1), Mexico (2), Mozambique (2), Nigeria (3), Papua New Guinea (3), Peru (2), Spain (1), Tunisia (1), the United Kingdom (18), United States (35: California, Minnesota, New Mexico, South Dakota, Texas, Wyoming)
Total: 122 collections including 144 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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