Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Collignoniceratidae
Full reference: H. C. Klinger and W. J. Kennedy. 1984. Cretaceous faunas from Zululand and Natal, South Africa. The ammonite subfamily Peroniceratinae Hyatt, 1900. Annals of the South African Museum 92(3):1-294
Belongs to Gauthiericeras according to H. C. Klinger and W. J. Kennedy 1984
Sister taxa: Gauthiericeras album, Gauthiericeras boreaui, Gauthiericeras libertae, Gauthiericeras listeri, Gauthiericeras margae, Gauthiericeras nouelianum, Gauthiericeras obesum, Gauthiericeras roquei
Type specimen: SAS 92/4, a shell. Its type locality is Picnic Point, False Bay (between locality 83 and 84), which is in a Coniacian marine siltstone in the St Lucia Formation of South Africa.
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 148.5
Distribution: found only at Picnic Point, False Bay (between locality 83 and 84)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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