Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Tetragonitidae
Alternative combinations: Ammonites varuna, Zealandites varuna
Synonym: Zelandites varuna japonica Matsumoto 1938
Full reference: E. Forbes. 1846. Report on the fossil invertebrata from southern India, collected by Mr. Kaye and Mr. Cunliffe. Transactions of the Geological Society of London, Series 2 7:97-174
Belongs to Zelandites according to Y. Shigeta and H. Maeda 2023
See also Forbes 1846, Kennedy and Henderson 1992, Macellari 1986, Macellari 1988, Morozumi 1985, Salazar et al. 2010 and Shigeta et al. 2015
Sister taxa: Zelandites dozei, Zelandites europae, Zelandites inflatus, Zelandites kaiparaensis, Zelandites odiensis, Zelandites perezi
Type specimens:
- Zelandites varuna: BMNH C51059, a shell. Its type locality is Pondicherry, which is in a Maastrichtian marine sandstone/claystone in the Valudavur Formation of India.
- Zelandites varuna japonica:
Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 22.3
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Antarctica (4 collections), Chile (5), India (1), Japan (3), the Russian Federation (2)
Total: 15 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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