Aconeceras austronisoides Brunnschweiler 1959 (ammonite)

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Oppeliidae

Full reference: R. O. Brunnschweiler. 1959. New Aconeceratinae (Ammonoidea) from the Albian and Aptian of Australia. Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics Bulletin 54:1-19

Belongs to Aconeceras according to R. O. Brunnschweiler 1959

Sister taxa: Aconeceras (Aconeceras), Aconeceras (Gyaloceras), Aconeceras haugi, Aconeceras nisoides, Aconeceras nisum, Aconeceras walshense, Aconeceras whitehousei

Type specimen: CPC 2626, a shell. Its type locality is Western slope of Windalia Hill, 20 feet above base, which is in an Aptian marine siltstone in the Windalia Radiolarite Formation of Australia.

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Western slope of Windalia Hill, 20 feet above base

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