Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Neocomitidae
Alternative combination: Neocomites jenkinsi
Full reference: F. M. Anderson. 1933. Knoxville-Shasta succession in California. Geological Society America Bulletin 44:1237-1270
Belongs to Thurmanniceras according to R. W. Imlay and D. L. Jones 1970
Sister taxa: Thurmanniceras californicum, Thurmanniceras pertransiens, Thurmanniceras santarosanum, Thurmanniceras stippi, Thurmanniceras thurmanni, Thurmanniceras wilcoxi, Thurmannites novihispanicus, Thurmannites angusticostatus, Thurmannites miquihuanensis, Thurmannia paskentae
Type specimen: Its type locality is CAS loc33502, Southeast of Burt's Ranch house on McCarthy Creek, which is in a Valanginian marine siliciclastic in the Paskenta Formation of California.
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of United States (13: California, Oregon collections)
Total: 13 collections each including a single occurrence
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