Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Scaphitidae
Full reference: A. C. Riccardi. 1983. Scaphitids from the Upper Campanian-Lower Maastrichtian Bearpaw Formation of the Western Interior of Canada. Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 354:1-51
Belongs to Jeletzkytes according to A. C. Riccardi 1983
Sister taxa: Jeletzkytes compressus, Jeletzkytes crassus, Jeletzkytes dorfi, Jeletzkytes furnivali, Jeletzkytes nebrascensis, Jeletzkytes spedeni
Type specimen: GSC 67104, a shell. Its type locality is GSC Loc. 10374, Frenchman River [Belanger Mbr, Bearpaw Fm], which is in a Campanian marine shale in the Bearpaw Shale Formation of Canada.
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Canada (6: Saskatchewan collections), United States (2: Maryland, New Jersey)
Total: 8 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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