Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Tetragonitidae
Full reference: T. Birkelund. 1965. Ammonites from the Upper Cretaceous of West Greenland. Meddelelser om Grønland 179(7):1-192
Belongs to Saghalinites according to P. Courville and G. S. Odin 2001
See also Birkelund 1965, Birkelund 1993 and Ward and Kennedy 1993
Sister taxa: Saghalinites cala, Saghalinites nuperus, Saghalinites teshioensis
Type specimen: MMH 9747, a shell. Its type locality is Oyster-ammonite Conglomerate loc. III, Agatdalen, Nugssuaq, which is in a Maastrichtian offshore shale in Greenland.
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 38.9
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Austria (1 collection), Denmark (5), France (2), Greenland (3)
Total: 11 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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