Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Scaphitidae
Full reference: N. H. Landman and K. M. Waage. 1993. Scaphitid ammonites of the Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Fox Hills Formation in South Dakota and Wyoming. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 215:1-257
Belongs to Jeletzkytes according to N. H. Landman and W. A. Cobban 2003
See also Landman and Waage 1993
Sister taxa: Jeletzkytes compressus, Jeletzkytes crassus, Jeletzkytes criptonodosus, Jeletzkytes furnivali, Jeletzkytes nebrascensis, Jeletzkytes spedeni
Type specimen: YPM 23175, a shell. Its type locality is RB103, Redbird, which is in a Maastrichtian marine sandstone in the Fox Hills Formation of Wyoming.
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of United States (21: Colorado, South Dakota, Wyoming collections)
Total: 21 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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