Trachyscaphites Cobban and Scott 1964 (ammonite)

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Scaphitidae

Parent taxon: Scaphitinae according to B. Niebuhr et al. 2016

See also Atabekyan and Khakimov 1976, Cobban and Kennedy 1992, Ifrim et al. 2015, Kennedy 1993 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Acanthoscaphites, Billcobbanoceras, Desmoscaphites, Discoscaphites, Eoscaphites, Haresiceras, Indoscaphites, Jeletzkytes, Ponteixites, Pteroscaphites, Rhaeboceras, Scaphites

Subtaxa: Trachyscaphites alabamensis Trachyscaphites densicostatus Trachyscaphites pulcherrimus Trachyscaphites spiniger

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Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Austria (1 collection), Belgium (1), France (7), Germany (3), Iran (1), Mexico (1), the Netherlands (2), Spain (1), Tajikistan (2), Turkmenistan (1), United States (10: Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi, New Jersey, Texas, Wyoming), Uzbekistan (1)

Total: 31 collections including 34 occurrences

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