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Nigericeras scotti

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae

Taxonomy
Nigericeras scotti was named by Cobban (1972). Its type specimen is USNM 166396, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is USGS Mesozoic D6756, Baca County, which is in a Cenomanian carbonate limestone in the Greenhorn Limestone Formation of Colorado.

Entered
by M. Clapham on 2016-03-08

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1972Nigericeras scotti Cobban p. 18 figs. Pl 9, figs 1-4; pl 18, figs 1-9; text-figs 15-17

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderAmmonitidaHaeckel 1866
suborderAmmonitinaHyatt 1889
superfamilyAcanthoceratoidea(de Grossouvre 1894)
familyAcanthoceratidaeGrossouvre 1894
subfamilyAcanthoceratinaede Groussouvre 1894
genusNigericerasSchneegans 1943
speciesscotti

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Nigericeras scotti Cobban 1972
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: aragoniteo
Environment: marinec
Locomotion: fast-movingo
Life habit: nektonico
Diet: carnivoreo
Vision: well-developedc
Created: 2005-01-28 02:27:03
Modified: 2009-10-08 14:14:55
Source: o = order, c = class
References: Kiessling 2004, Kiessling 2003

Age range: Late/Upper Cenomanian or 100.50000 to 93.90000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Cenomanian100.5 - 93.9USA (Colorado) Nigericeras scotti (type locality: 176990)