Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Scaphitidae

Full reference: W. A. Cobban and G. Gryc. 1961. Ammonites from the Seabee Formation (Cretaceous) of northern Alaska. Journal of Paleontology 35:176-190

Belongs to Scaphites according to K. Tanabe 1977

See also Cobban and Gryc 1961

Sister taxa: Scaphites (Scaphites), Scaphites arcadiensis, Scaphites binneyi, Scaphites bosquensis, Scaphites corvensis, Scaphites delicatulus, Scaphites diana, Scaphites equalis, Scaphites eruciformis, Scaphites geinitzii, Scaphites gillisi, Scaphites hippocrepis, Scaphites mariasensis, Scaphites meriani, Scaphites nigricollensis, Scaphites obliquus, Scaphites patulus, Scaphites praecoquus, Scaphites roemeri, Scaphites ventricosus

Type specimen: USNM 130794, a shell. Its type locality is USGS Mesozoic 26545, Nanushuk River, which is in a Turonian coastal shale in the Seabee Formation of Alaska.

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at USGS Mesozoic 26545, Nanushuk River

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