Mzerrebites amarensis Bockwinkel et al. 2015 (ammonite)

Cephalopoda - Agoniatitida - Taouzitidae

Full reference: J. Bockwinkel, R. T. Becker, and V. Ebbighausen. 2015. Late Givetian ammonoids from Ait Ou Amar (northern Maider, Anti-Atlas, southeastern Morocco). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 278:123-158

Belongs to Mzerrebites according to J. Bockwinkel et al. 2015

Sister taxa: Mzerrebites bifurcatus, Mzerrebites erraticus, Mzerrebites juvenocostatus, Mzerrebites kiliani, Mzerrebites schwelmensis

Type specimen: MfN MB.C.25093.1, a shell. Its type locality is Butte 760, Ait Out Amar, which is in a Givetian marine shale in Morocco.

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Butte 760, Ait Out Amar

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