Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae

Full reference: C. Salazar, W. Stinnesbeck, and L. A. Quinzio-Sinn. 2010. Ammonites from the Maastrichtian (Upper Cretaceous) Quiriquina Formation in central Chile. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 257:181-236

Belongs to Kitchinites according to C. Salazar et al. 2010

Sister taxa: Kitchinites (Kitchinites), Kitchinites (Neopuzosia), Kitchinites angolaensis, Kitchinites darwini, Kitchinites ifrimae, Kitchinites pondicherryanus, Kitchinites spathi, Kitchinites spengleri, Kitchinites stenomphalus

Type specimen: CPUC/Q/SV/1449, a shell. Its type locality is San Vicente (locality SV, yellow sandstone beds), which is in a Maastrichtian marine sandstone in the Quiriquina Formation of Chile.

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 228.0

Distribution: found only at San Vicente (locality SV, yellow sandstone beds)

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Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.