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Current Taxonomic Status of Late Cretaceous Ammonoid Species from the Western Interior Seaway Assigned to the Family Muniericeratidae (Ammonitina: Desmocerataceae)

Jonathan R. Hendricks

Paleontological Research Institution, Ithaca, New York

Note: Names in green are accepted; names in red are synonyms. Return to main list here. This page was last updated May 12, 2017.

Class Cephalopoda

Order Ammonoidea Zittel, 1884

Suborder Ammonitina Hyatt, 1889

Superfamily Desmocerataceae Zittel, 1895

Duration: Upper Valanginian to Upper Maastrichtian (Source: Wright et al., 1996).

Family Muniericeratidae Wright, 1952

Duration: Lower Turonian to Lower Campanian (Source: Wright et al., 1996).

Genus Tragodesmoceras Spath, 1922

Type species: Desmoceras clypealoides Leonhard, 1897.

Duration: Lower Turonian to Upper Santonian (Wright et al., 1996).

Tragodesmoceras socorroense Cobban and Hook, 1979

Original presentation: Tragodesmoceras socorroense

Original publication: Cobban and Hook. 1979. [p. 13, pl. 5, figs 9, 10, pls 6, 7, pl. 11, fig. 10, text-fig. 4].

Types: awaiting determination.

Type locality: awaiting determination.

Type horizon: awaiting determination.

Other specimens: USNM 328707, USNM 328708.

WIS occurrences:

Turonian: Mancos Shale (Rio Salado Tongue) (NM).

Other occurrences: awaiting determination.

PaleoDB taxon number: 143704.

References: Cobban and Hook (1983).

Origin of name: awaiting determination.

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