Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Polyptychitidae

Full reference: P. Alsen. 2006. The Early Cretaceous (Late Ryazanian-Early Hauterivian) ammonite fauna of North-East Greenland: taxonomy, biostratigraphy, and biogeography. Fossils and Strata 53:1-229

Belongs to Polyptychites (Polyptychites) according to P. Alsen 2006

Sister taxa: Polyptychites (Polyptychites) ascendens, Polyptychites (Polyptychites) beani, Polyptychites (Polyptychites) conferticosta, Polyptychites (Polyptychites) keyserlingi, Polyptychites (Polyptychites) michalskii, Polyptychites (Polyptychites) plenus, Polyptychites (Polyptychites) polyptychus, Polyptychites (Polyptychites) ramulicosta, Polyptychites (Polyptychites) robertsi, Polyptychites (Polyptychites) tuberculatus

Type specimen: MGUH 28094, a shell

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 47.5

Distribution: found only at Loc. 1, southern Mols Berge [Palnatokes Bjerg Fm] (Cretaceous of Greenland)

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