Rectimitoceras Becker 1996 (ammonite)

Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Prionoceratidae

Full reference: R. T. Becker. 1996. New faunal records and holostratigraphic correlation of the Hasselbachtal D/C-boundary auxiliary stratotype (Germany). Annales de la Société géologique de Belgique 117:19-45

Parent taxon: Prionoceratidae according to R. T. Becker 1996

Sister taxa: Acutimitoceratinae, Balvia, Balviinae, Cunitoceras, Imitoceratinae, Mimimitoceras, Paragattendorfia, Prionoceratinae, Triimitoceras

Subtaxa: Rectimitoceras alternatum Rectimitoceras linearis

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Type: Goniatites linearis

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Hasselbachtal D/C boundary section, southern slope, bed 1 (Devonian of Germany)

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