Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Ceratitidae

Full reference: C. Monnet and H. Bucher. 2005. New Middle and Late Anisian (Middle Triassic) Ammonoid Faunas From Northwestern Nevada(USA): Taxonomy and Biochronology. Fossils and Strata 52:1-121

Belongs to Chiratites according to Smith 1914

Sister taxon: Chiratites retrospinosus

Type specimen: PIMUZ 25213. Its type locality is Ferguson Canyon HB 739, Augusta Mountains, which is in a Pelsonian marine horizon in Nevada.

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 52.8

Distribution: found only at Ferguson Canyon HB 739, Augusta Mountains

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