Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Nostoceratidae
Alternative combination: Turrilites excelsus
Full reference: F. M. Anderson. 1958. Upper Cretaceous of the Pacific Coast. Geological Society of America Memoir 71:1-378
Belongs to Nostoceras according to A. A. Atabekyan and F. K. Khakimov 1976
See also Anderson 1958 and Matsumoto 1960
Sister taxa: Nostoceras (Euskadiceras), Nostoceras (Nostoceras), Nostoceras alternatus, Nostoceras arkanasanum, Nostoceras colubriformis, Nostoceras danei, Nostoceras hetonaiense, Nostoceras hyatti, Nostoceras kernense, Nostoceras larimerense, Nostoceras mariatheresianum, Nostoceras mendryki, Nostoceras mexicanum, Nostoceras monotuberculatum, Nostoceras pauper, Nostoceras pleurocostatum, Nostoceras pulcher, Nostoceras rotundum, Nostoceras saundersorum, Nostoceras splendidum, Nostoceras sternbergi
Type specimen: Its type locality is CAS Loc29123 - Pacheco [Mustang Shale, Moreno Fm], which is in a Maastrichtian marine mudstone/shale in the Moreno Formation of California.
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Turkmenistan (1 collection), United States (1: California)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
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