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Nannometoicoceras acceleratum
Taxonomy
Metoicoceras acceleratum was named by Hyatt (1903). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Horton's Mill, Elm Fork, which is in a Cenomanian marine horizon in the Britton Formation of Texas. It is the type species of Nannometoicoceras.
It was synonymized subjectively with Metoicoceras gibbosum by Cooper (1978); it was recombined as Nannometoicoceras acceleratum by Kennedy (1988), Cobban et al. (1989).
It was synonymized subjectively with Metoicoceras gibbosum by Cooper (1978); it was recombined as Nannometoicoceras acceleratum by Kennedy (1988), Cobban et al. (1989).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1903 | Metoicoceras acceleratum Hyatt |
| 1988 | Nannometoicoceras acceleratum Kennedy pp. 67 - 68 figs. Plate 11, figs. 1-24; text-fig. 8A |
| 1989 | Nannometoicoceras acceleratum Cobban et al. p. 45 figs. 86N, 0 |
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†Nannometoicoceras acceleratum Hyatt 1903
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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Age range: Late/Upper Cenomanian or 100.50000 to 93.90000 Ma
Collections (3 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Cenomanian | USA (Texas) | Metoicoceras acceleratum (230847) Nannometoicoceras acceleratum (230848) | |
| Late/Upper Cenomanian | USA (Arizona) | Nannometoicoceras acceleratum (53401) |