Vavilovites obtusus Tozer 1994 (ceratite)

Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Paranoritidae

Full reference: E. T. Tozer. 1994. Canadian Triassic Ammonoid Faunas. Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 467:1-663

Belongs to Vavilovites according to E. T. Tozer 1994

Sister taxa: Vavilovites compressus, Vavilovites kuluensis, Vavilovites meridialis, Vavilovites subtriangularis, Vavilovites sverdrupi, Vavilovites turgidus

Type specimen: GSC 28097. Its type locality is GSC 51695, Diener Creek, Svartefjeld Peninsula, Ellesmere Island, which is in a Dienerian deep-water siliciclastic in the Blind Fiord Formation of Canada.

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 57.7

Distribution: found only at GSC 51695, Diener Creek, Svartefjeld Peninsula, Ellesmere Island

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