Cyptendoceras richardsoni Flower 1964 (mollusk)

Cephalopoda - Ellesmerocerida - Protocycloceratidae

Full reference: R. H. Flower. 1964. The Nautiloid Order Ellesmeroceratida (Cephalopoda). State Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Memoir 12:234 p.

Belongs to Cyptendoceras according to R. H. Flower 1964

Sister taxa: Cyptendoceras floridaense, Cyptendoceras kirki, Cyptendoceras magnus, Cyptendoceras rhythmicum, Cyptendoceras ruedemanni, Cyptendoceras whitfieldi

Type specimen: RHF 870, a partial shell (phragmocone). Its type locality is Southern Franklin Mts. at El Paso, which is in a Cassinian shallow subtidal dolomite in the Scenic Drive Formation of Texas.

Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Southern Franklin Mts. at El Paso

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