Parapachydiscus brasiliensis Maury 1930 (ammonite)

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Pachydiscidae

Full reference: C. J. Maury. 1930. O Cretaceo da Parahyba do Norte. Serviço Geologico E Mineralogico do Brasil Monographia 8:1-305

Belongs to Parapachydiscus according to C. J. Maury 1930

Sister taxa: Pachydiscus (Neodesmoceras), Pachydiscus (Pachydiscus), Pachydiscus armenicus, Pachydiscus besairiei, Pachydiscus binodatus, Pachydiscus buckhami, Pachydiscus colligatus, Pachydiscus epiplectus, Pachydiscus excelsus, Pachydiscus flexuosus, Pachydiscus gollevillensis, Pachydiscus hauthali, Pachydiscus launayi, Pachydiscus levyi, Pachydiscus naumanni, Pachydiscus neevesi, Pachydiscus patagonicus, Pachydiscus peramplus, Pachydiscus perfidus, Pachydiscus precolligatus, Pachydiscus riccardi, Pachydiscus stallauensis, Pachydiscus steinmanni, Pachydiscus subcompressus, Pachydiscus subrobustus, Pachydiscus (Parapachydiscus) woodringi, Parapachydiscus hera, Parapachydiscus parahybensis, Parapachydiscus perseus, Parapachydiscus henleyensis, Parapachydiscus arionis, Parapachydiscus athena, Parapachydiscus poseidon, Parapachydiscus gettyi, Parapachydiscus albuquerquei, Parapachydiscus oceanus, Parapachydiscus stanislausensis, Parapachydiscus reedsi, Parapachydiscus orpheus, Parapachydiscus eurydice, Parapachydiscus abbotti, Pachydiscus (Parapachydiscus) gardneri, Parapachydiscus bruneti, Parapachydiscus cortinaensis, Parapachydiscus hermes, Parapachydiscus psyche, Parapachydiscus euzebioi, Parapachydiscus sumneri, Parapachydiscus diabloensis, Parapachydiscus endymion, Parapachydiscus californicus, Parapachydiscus williamsoni

Type specimen: Its type locality is Right bank of Rio Gramame (Sphenodiscus zone), which is in a Maastrichtian carbonate limestone in the Gramame Formation of Brazil

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Right bank of Rio Gramame (Sphenodiscus zone)

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