Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Aspidoceratidae
Alternative combinations: Ammonites sesquinodosus, Aspidoceras sesquinodosus
Full reference: F. Fontannes. 1876. Description des ammonites de la zone à Ammonites tenuilobatus de Crussol (Ardèche) et de quelques autres fossiles jurassiques nouveaux ou peu connus . Mémoires de l’Académie des sciences de Lyon, classe des sciences XXI:1-159
Belongs to Aspidoceras according to H.-U. Bantz 1970
See also Fontannes 1876
Sister taxa: Aspidoceras acanthicum, Aspidoceras alamitocense, Aspidoceras andinum, Aspidoceras apenninicum, Aspidoceras atavum, Aspidoceras binodiferum, Aspidoceras binodum, Aspidoceras caletanum, Aspidoceras catalaunicum, Aspidoceras euomphalum, Aspidoceras haupti, Aspidoceras haynaldi, Aspidoceras iphiceroides, Aspidoceras iphicerum, Aspidoceras irregulare, Aspidoceras longispinum, Aspidoceras monacanthum, Aspidoceras ponderosum, Aspidoceras rafaeli, Aspidoceras raspailii, Aspidoceras rogoznicense, Aspidoceras somalicum, Aspidoceras sparsispinum, Aspidoceras subdistractum, Aspidoceras supraspinosum, Aspidoceras taverai, Aspidoceras tenuispinatum, Aspidoceras wynnei
Type specimen: UCBL-FSL 12908. Its type locality is Montagne de Crussol (Ardèche) region, which is in a Kimmeridgian marine carbonate/marl in France.
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Jurassic of France (1 collection), Italy (1), Madagascar (1), Romania (2)
Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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