Parapachydiscus williamsoni 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, Parapachydiscus sumneri, Parapachydiscus hera, Parapachydiscus endymion, Parapachydiscus bruneti, Parapachydiscus euzebioi, Parapachydiscus californicus, Parapachydiscus albuquerquei, Parapachydiscus athena, Pachydiscus (Parapachydiscus) gardneri, Parapachydiscus henleyensis, Parapachydiscus diabloensis, Parapachydiscus reedsi, Parapachydiscus orpheus, Pachydiscus (Parapachydiscus) woodringi, Parapachydiscus abbotti, Parapachydiscus parahybensis, Parapachydiscus cortinaensis, Parapachydiscus perseus, Parapachydiscus psyche, Parapachydiscus eurydice, Parapachydiscus gettyi, Parapachydiscus stanislausensis, Parapachydiscus brasiliensis, Parapachydiscus hermes, Parapachydiscus poseidon, Parapachydiscus oceanus, Parapachydiscus arionis

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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