Metoicoceras mosbyense

Geological Range

Albian to Cenomanian

Texas to Montana

Original presentation: Metoicoceras mosbyense

Original publication: Cobban. 1953 [p. 48, pl. 6, figs 1-14, pl. 7, figs 1-3].

Holotype: USNM 108315.

Type locality: “east-central Montana” (Kennedy and Cobban, 1990b, p. 409).

Type horizon: “Mosby Sandstone Member of the Belle Fourche Shale” (Kennedy and Cobban, 1990b, p. 409).

PaleoDB taxon number: 318407.

Synonym: Metoicoceras muelleri Cobban, 1953 (source: Cobban and Kennedy, 1991).

References: Kennedy and Cobban (1990b).

Cenomanian: Belle Fourche Formation (WY); Belle Fourche Formation (Mosby Sandstone Member) (MT); Colorado Formation (NM); Colorado Formation (Bridge Creek Limestone Member) (NM); Frontier Formation (WY)
Albian: Colorado Shale (MT)
Unknown Stage: Frontier Formation (WY); Greenhorn Limestone (SD)