Cephalopoda - Phylloceratida - Ussuritidae
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 Ussurites according to H. Bucher 1989
Sister taxa: Ussurites arthaberi, Ussurites cameroni, Ussurites hara, Ussurites hosei, Ussurites kingi, Ussurites mansfeldi, Ussurites mansfieldi, Ussurites muskwa, Ussurites sichoticus, Ussurites sieveri, Ussurites sokolovi, Ussurites submansfeldi, Ussurites xinghaiensis, Ussurites yabei
Type specimen: USNM 438372, 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 37.0
Distribution: found only at Bloody Canyon HB 225, northern Humboldt Range
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