Groenlandites merriami Bucher 1989 (ceratite)

Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Longobarditidae

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 Groenlandites according to H. Bucher 1989

Sister taxa: Groenlandites amplus, Groenlandites astachovae, Groenlandites canadensis, Groenlandites glaber, Groenlandites kummeli, Groenlandites nielseni, Groenlandites pridaense, Groenlandites silberlingi

Type specimen: USNM 438361, a shell. Its type locality is Bloody Canyon HB 225, northern Humboldt Range, which is in an Aegean marine limestone in the Prida Formation of Nevada.

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 46.0

Distribution: found only at Bloody Canyon HB 225, northern Humboldt Range

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