''Mortoniceras'' is an

ammonoid Ammonoids are a group of extinct marine mollusc animals in the subclass Ammonoidea of the class Cephalopoda. These molluscs, commonly referred to as ammonites, are more closely related to living coleoids (i.e., octopuses, squid and cuttlefish) ...

genus belonging to the superfamily Acanthocerataceae, named by Meek in 1876, based on ''Ammonites vespertinu'', named by Morton in 1834. ''Mortoniceras'' is the type genus of the Mortoniceratinae, one of 4 subfamilies in the Brancoceratidae which is part of the Acanthocerataceae (renamed Acanthoceratoidea to conform with the ICZN ruling on superfamily endings)

Distribution

''Mortoniceras'' is found in middle and upper Albian sediments, at the end of the

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in Algeria, Angola, Armenia, Belgium, Canada (British Columbia), Colombia ( Hiló Formation), Ecuador, France, Germany, Iran, Japan, Madagascar, Mexico, Mozambique, Nigeria, South Africa, Spain, Suriname, Switzerland, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, the United States (California, New Mexico, Texas, Oregon), and Venezuela.''Mortoniceras''
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References

* ''Fossils'' (Smithsonian Handbooks) by David Ward * ''Studies on Mexican Paleontology'' (Topics in Geobiology) by Francisco J. Vega, Torrey G. Nyborg, María del Carmen Perrilliat, and Marisol Montellano-Ballesteros Cretaceous ammonites Cretaceous animals of Africa Ammonites of Europe Cretaceous Europe Ammonites of North America Cretaceous Canada Cretaceous Mexico Cretaceous United States Ammonites of South America Cretaceous Colombia Cretaceous Ecuador Cretaceous Venezuela Albian life Albian genus extinctions {{ammonite-stub

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