Pseudophyllites indra Forbes 1846 (ammonite)

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Tetragonitidae

Alternative combination: Ammonites indra

Synonyms: Ammonites garuda Forbes 1846, Gaudryceras colloti de Grossouvre 1894

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 Pseudophyllites according to B. Niebuhr et al. 2016

See also Courville and Odin 2001, Forbes 1846, Henderson and McNamara 1985, Jones 1963, Kennedy 1986, Kennedy and Hancock 1993, Kennedy and Henderson 1992, Kennedy and Summesberger 1986, Klinger et al. 2001, Macellari 1986, Marshall 1926, Matsumoto 1959, Salazar et al. 2010, Ward and Kennedy 1993 and Zakharov et al. 2012

Sister taxa: Pseudophilites amphitrite, Pseudophilites nereidideditus, Pseudophyllites latus, Pseudophyllites loryi, Pseudophyllites pyrenaicus, Pseudophyllites teres

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 56.4

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Australia (21 collections), Austria (1), Chile (2), France (8), India (1), Iran (1), New Zealand (1), North Pacific (1), South Africa (2), Turkey (1), United States (11: Alaska, California, New Jersey)

Total: 50 collections including 51 occurrences

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