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 pandya, Paracrochordiceras pingtangense, Paracrochordiceras plicatus, Paracrochordiceras qinghaiense, Paracrochordiceras silberlingi, Paracrochordiceras welteri, Preflorianitoides reniformis, Eoacrochordiceras evolutum, Eoacrochordiceras ziyunense
Type specimen: USNM 438377, a shell. Its type locality is Coyote Canyon HB 95, northern Humboldt Mountains, which is in an Aegean offshore limestone/siltstone in the Prida Formation of Nevada.
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 27.0
Distribution:
• Triassic of United States (2: Nevada collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
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