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 pondicherryanus, Kitchinites spathi, Kitchinites spengleri, Kitchinites stenomphalus, Kitchinites vicentensis

Type specimen: CPUC/Q/CO/3161, a shell. Its type locality is Cocholgüe (locality CO, beds with concretions), which is in a Maastrichtian marine sandstone in the Quiriquina Formation of Chile.

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 88.5

Distribution: found only at Cocholgüe (locality CO, beds with concretions)

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