Chesapeakiceras Kennedy and Cobban 1998 (ammonite)

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Diplomoceratidae

Synonym: Chesapeakella Kennedy and Cobban 1993 [replaced name]

Full reference: W. J. Kennedy and W. A. Cobban. 1998. Chesapeakiceras, new name for Chesapeakella Kennedy and Cobban, 1993 (September 14), not Chesapeakella Campbell, 1993 (June 13). Journal of Paleontology 72:403

Parent taxon: Diplomoceratinae according to M. Gane et al. 2016

See also Kennedy and Cobban 1993, Kennedy and Cobban 1998 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Diplomoceras, Glyptoxoceras, Lewyites, Neancyloceras, Neocrioceras, Neoglyptoxoceras, Scalarites

Subtaxa: Chesapeakiceras nodatum

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Type: Chesapeakella nodatum

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of United States (3: Delaware collections)

Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence

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