Metoicoceras praecox
- Phylum: Mollusca
- Class: Cephalopoda
- Order: Ammonoidea
- Family: Acanthoceratidae
- Genus: Metoicoceras
- Species: Metoicoceras praecox Haas, 1949
Geological Range
Cenomanian to Turonian
Paleogeographic Distribution
New Mexico to Wyoming
Remarks
Original presentation: Metoicoceras whitei praecox
Original publication: Haas. 1949. [p. 15, pls. 5-7, text-figs 5-9].
Holotype: AMNH 26415.
Type locality: “northeast of Greybull, Big Horn County, Wyoming” (Cobban and Kennedy, 1991, p. B2).
Type horizon: Cody Shale (Cobban and Kennedy, 1991).
PaleoDB taxon number: 318406.
References: Cobban and Kennedy (1991).
Stratigraphic Occurrences
- Turonian
- Cody Shale (WY)
- Cenomanian
- Belle Fourche Formation (WY)
- Cody Shale (WY)
- Colorado Formation (NM)
- Colorado Formation (Bridge Creek Limestone Member) (NM)
- Dakota Sandstone (NM)
