Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae
Synonym: Acanthoceras vergonsense Thomel 1972
Full reference: W. J. Kennedy and J. M. Hancock. 1970. Ammonites of the genus Acanthoceras from the Cenomanian of Rouen, France. Palaeontology 13(3):462-490
Belongs to Acanthoceras according to P. Juignet and W. J. Kennedy 1976
See also Kennedy and Hancock 1970 and Thomel 1972
Sister taxa: Acanthoceras (Alternacanthoceras), Acanthoceras amphibolum, Acanthoceras asiatica, Acanthoceras athabascense, 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 sarthacense, Acanthoceras sherborni, Acanthoceras vectense, Acanthoceras whitei
Type specimens:
- Acanthoceras basseae: KENNEDY et HANCOCK,pl. 97, figure 1 a-b. Its type locality is Sainte-Catherine, Rouen, which is in a Cenomanian carbonate chalk in the Craie de Rouen Formation of France.
- Acanthoceras vergonsense:
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of France (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
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