Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Scaphitidae
Alternative combinations: Otoscaphites puerculus, Scaphites puerculus
Synonyms: Otoscaphites planus Yabe 1910, Otoscaphites teshioensis Yabe 1910, Scaphites (Otoscaphites) yabei Wiedmann 1965, Scaphites (Scaphites) obscurus Alabushev 1989, Scaphites condoni Anderson 1902, Scaphites gracilis Yabe 1910, Scaphites inermis Anderson 1902, Scaphites pittensis Anderson 1958, Scaphites planus Yabe 1910, Scaphites roguensis Anderson 1902, Scaphites yokoyamai Jimbo 1894, Yezoites planus Yabe 1910, Yezoites teshioensis Yabe 1910
Belongs to Yezoites according to K. Tanabe 2022
See also Anderson 1902, Anderson 1958, Jagt-Yazykova et al. 2021, Jones 1967, Jones et al. 1978, Matsumoto 1960 and Yazykova et al. 2004
Sister taxa: Yezoites bladenensis, Yezoites matsumotoi, Yezoites orbignyi, Yezoites perrini, Yezoites pseudoaequalis, Yezoites seabeensis, Yezoites subevolutus, Otoscaphites (Otoscaphites), Otoscaphites (Hyposcaphites), Otoscaphites arnaudi, Otoscaphites reidi
Subtaxa: Scaphites condoni appressus
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Japan (55 collections), the Russian Federation (9), United States (14: Alaska, California, Oregon)
Total: 78 collections including 117 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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