Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Trachyceratidae

Full reference: A. Hyatt and J. P. Smith. 1905. The Triassic cephalopod genera of America. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 40:1-394

Belongs to Sirenites according to J. P. Smith 1927

See also Hyatt and Smith 1905

Sister taxa: Sirenites betulinus, Sirenites hayesi, Sirenites homfrayi, Sirenites irregularis, Sirenites malayicus, Sirenites nanseni, Sirenites ovinus, Sirenites senticosus, Sirenites serotinus, Sirenites smithi

Type specimen: Its type locality is Brock Mountain, 3 miles east of Madison's ranch (Trachyceras subzone), which is in a Tuvalian carbonate limestone in the Hosselkus Formation of California

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Brock Mountain, 3 miles east of Madison's ranch (Trachyceras subzone)

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