Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Aspidoceratidae
Full reference: C. Burckhardt. 1927. Cefalópodos del Jurásico Medio de Oaxaca y Guerrero. Boletin Instituto Geologico Mexico 47:1-108
Belongs to Peltoceras according to C. Burckhardt 1927
Sister taxa: Peltoceras (Metapeltoceras), Peltoceras (Peltoceras), Peltoceras (Peltomorphites), Peltoceras aegoceroides, Peltoceras berckhemeri, Peltoceras bidens, Peltoceras constrictum, Peltoceras convexum, Peltoceras kachhense, Peltoceras metamorphicum, Peltoceras modeli, Peltoceras monacanthum, Peltoceras neogaeum, Peltoceras occidentale, Peltoceras oeschingense, Peltoceras propinquum, Peltoceras semirugosum, Peltoceras subtense, Peltoceras trifidum
Type specimen: IGL:IGM:1963 & IGL:IGM:1964, a shell. Its type locality is Mina El Consuela, 14.3 km SSW of Heroica Villa Tezoatlán de Segura y Luna, which is in a Callovian marine horizon in the Capas con Reineckeia Formation of Mexico.
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution: found only at Mina El Consuela, 14.3 km SSW of Heroica Villa Tezoatlán de Segura y Luna
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