Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Ptychoceratidae
Alternative combinations: Diptychoceras laeve, Diptychoceras laevis
Full reference: W. M. Gabb. 1869. Section II. Cretaceous Fossils. Part I. Description of New Species. Palaeontology of California, Volume II, Cretaceous and Tertiary Fossils 127-205
Belongs to Ptychoceras according to R. W. Imlay 1960
See also Anderson 1938 and Gabb 1869
Sister taxa: Ptychoceras adpressum, Ptychoceras emericianum, Ptychoceras fauncei, Ptychoceras laeve, Ptychoceras natrice, Ptychoceras poni, Ptychoceras puzosianum, Ptychoceras quadratus
Type specimen: Its type locality is Cottonwood Creek, which is in an Albian marine claystone in the Budden Canyon Formation of California
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of France (1 collection), United States (31: Alaska, California)
Total: 32 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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