Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Scaphitidae
Parent taxon: Scaphitinae according to W. J. Kennedy and H. Summesberger 1987
See also Russell and Landes 1937 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Billcobbanoceras, Desmoscaphites, Discoscaphites, Eoscaphites, Haresiceras, Indoscaphites, Jeletzkytes, Ponteixites, Pteroscaphites, Rhaeboceras, Scaphites, Trachyscaphites
Subtaxa: Acanthoscaphites plenus Acanthoscaphites tridens Acanthoscaphites verneuilianus
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Canada (4: Alberta collections), Denmark (3), France (1), Germany (1), the Netherlands (2), the Russian Federation (1), Ukraine (1), United States (9: Kansas, Montana, Wyoming)
Total: 22 collections including 28 occurrences
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