Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Brancoceratidae
Alternative combinations: Ammonites varicosus, Brancoceras varicosum, Schloenbachia varicosa
Full reference: J. d. C. Sowerby. 1824. No. LXXVIII of the mineral conchology of Great Britain; or colored figures and descriptions of those remains of testaceous animals or shells, which have been preserved at various times and depths in the Earth. The mineral conchology of Great Britain 5:73-78
Belongs to Hysteroceras according to R. A. Henderson 1990
See also Choffat 1905, Haas 1942, Hyatt 1900, Spath 1922 and Spath 1934
Sister taxa: Hysteroceras andinum, Hysteroceras antipodeum, Hysteroceras binum, Hysteroceras bucklandi, Hysteroceras capricornu, Hysteroceras carinatum, Hysteroceras choffati, Hysteroceras falcicostatum, Hysteroceras intermedium, Hysteroceras multifalcatum, Hysteroceras ootaturense, Hysteroceras orbignyi, Hysteroceras propinquum, Hysteroceras semileve, Hysteroceras subbinum, Petinoceras recuperator, Terascosceras cariniferum, Komeceras acuticostatum
Subtaxa: Hysteroceras varicosum angolana Hysteroceras varicosum rarecostata
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Angola (1 collection), France (4), North Atlantic (1), Serbia and Montenegro (1), Switzerland (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (1: California)
Total: 10 collections including 11 occurrences
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