Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Brancoceratidae

Alternative combinations: Pervinquieria (Styphloceras) multicostata, Pervinquieria multicostata

Full reference: E. C. N. Van Hoepen. 1942. Die Gekielde ammoniete van die Suid-Afrikaansse Gault. II. Drepanoceratidae, Pervinquieridae, Arestoceratidae, Cainoceratidae. Paleontologiese Navorsing van die Nasionale Museum, Bloemfontein 1(4):91-157

Belongs to Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) according to R. A. Reyment 1955

See also Van Hoepen 1942 and Van Hoepen 1955

Sister taxa: Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) aequatorealis, Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) albense, Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) arietiforme, Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) densecostatum, Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) evolutum, Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) fallax, Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) fissicostatum, Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) inflatum, Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) kiliani, Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) nanum, Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) nodosocostatum, Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) ornatum, Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) pachys, Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) potternense, Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) quadrinodosum, Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) recticostatum, Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) subrotundum, Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) vespertinus, Mortoniceras (Styphloceras) lowrii, Mortoniceras (Styphloceras) downii

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Ibenta, Abakaliki Division (Cretaceous of Nigeria)

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