Canavarites Hyatt 1900 (ammonite)

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Arietitidae

Full reference: A. Hyatt. 1900. Cephalopoda. Textbook of Palaeontology 1:502-604

Parent taxon: Alsatitinae according to M. K. Howarth 2013

See also Hyatt 1900 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Alsatites, Gonioptychoceras, Pseudaetomoceras, Tipperoceras, Yebisites

Subtaxa: Canavarites discretum

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Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Canavarites in the database

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