Mortoniceras gainesana Anderson 1958 (ammonite)

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Brancoceratidae

Alternative combination: Pervinquieria gainesana

Full reference: F. M. Anderson. 1958. Upper Cretaceous of the Pacific Coast. Geological Society of America Memoir 71:1-378

Belongs to Mortoniceras according to M. A. Murphy and P. U. Rodda 1960

See also Anderson 1958

Sister taxa: Mortoniceras (Angolaites), Mortoniceras (Boeseites), Mortoniceras (Deiradoceras), Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras), Mortoniceras (Rusoceras), Mortoniceras (Subschloenbachia), Mortoniceras equidistans, Mortoniceras leonense, Mortoniceras scobinum, Inflaticeras evolutum

Type specimen: UCMP 14940, a shell. Its type locality is North Fork of Cottonwood Creek, above Hulen Creek, which is in a Cenomanian marine siliciclastic in California.

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 120.0

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of United States (4: California collections)

Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence

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