Menuites menu Forbes 1846 (ammonite)

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Pachydiscidae

Alternative combination: Ammonites menu

Full reference: E. Forbes. 1846. Report on the fossil invertebrata from southern India, collected by Mr. Kaye and Mr. Cunliffe. Transactions of the Geological Society of London, Series 2 7:97-174

Belongs to Menuites according to W. J. Kennedy and R. A. Henderson 1992

See also Forbes 1846, Kennedy et al. 2007 and Kennedy and Summesberger 1986

Sister taxa: Menuites arrialoorensis, Menuites costatus, Menuites fresvillensis, Menuites gerardoi, Menuites oralensis, Menuites portlocki, Menuites sanadai, Menuites soyaensis, Menuites wittekindi, Anapachydiscus nelchinensis, Anapachydiscus terminus, Anapachydiscus subtililobatum, Anapachydiscus peninsularis, Anapachydiscus fascicostatus, Anapachydiscus californicus

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 52.8

Distribution: found only at Pondicherry (Cretaceous of India)

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