Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Acrochordiceratidae
Full reference: H. Bucher. 1989. Lower Anisian ammonoids from the northern Humboldt Range (northwestern Nevada, USA) and their bearing upon the Lower-Middle Triassic boundary. Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae 82:945-1002
Belongs to Paracrochordiceras according to H. Bucher 1989
Sister taxa: Paracrochordiceras americanum, Paracrochordiceras anodosum, Paracrochordiceras asseretoi, Paracrochordiceras benderi, Paracrochordiceras denseplicatum, Paracrochordiceras mclearni, Paracrochordiceras pandya, Paracrochordiceras pingtangense, Paracrochordiceras plicatus, Paracrochordiceras qinghaiense, Paracrochordiceras welteri, Eoacrochordiceras evolutum, Eoacrochordiceras ziyunense, Preflorianitoides reniformis
Type specimen: USNM 438314, a shell. Its type locality is Coyote Canyon HB 223, northern Humboldt Range, which is in an Aegean marine horizon in the Prida Formation of Nevada.
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 26.0
Distribution: found only at Coyote Canyon HB 223, northern Humboldt Range
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