Macrocephalites cadoceroides Burckhardt 1927 (ammonite)

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Macrocephalitidae

Full reference: C. Burckhardt. 1927. Cefalópodos del Jurásico Medio de Oaxaca y Guerrero. Boletin Instituto Geologico Mexico 47:1-108

Belongs to Macrocephalites according to C. Burckhardt 1927

Sister taxa: Ammonites (Macrocephalites) ishmae, Macrocephalites jacquoti, Macrocephalites macrocephalus, Macrocephalites tuguriensis

Type specimen: IGL:IGM:1924, a partial shell. Its type locality is Outcrop 2.5km NE of El Llano, nr San Juan Mixtepec, which is in a Callovian marine horizon in Mexico.

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Outcrop 2.5km NE of El Llano, nr San Juan Mixtepec

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