Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Tetragonitidae
Full reference: F. M. Anderson. 1958. Upper Cretaceous of the Pacific Coast. Geological Society of America Memoir 71:1-378
Belongs to Lytoceras (Gaudryceras) according to F. M. Anderson 1958
Sister taxa: Gaudryceras (Gaudryceras), Gaudryceras (Mesogaudryceras), Gaudryceras aenigma, Gaudryceras beantalyense, Gaudryceras crassicostatum, Gaudryceras hamanakense, Gaudryceras hobetsense, Gaudryceras izumiense, Gaudryceras kayei, Gaudryceras makarovense, Gaudryceras mamiyai, Gaudryceras mite, Gaudryceras numidum, Gaudryceras propemite, Gaudryceras seymouriense, Gaudryceras stefaninii, Gaudryceras striatum, Gaudryceras tenuiliratum, Gaudryceras tombetsense, Gaudryceras varagurense, Lytoceras (Gaudryceras) alamedense, Lytoceras (Gaudryceras) delvallense, Lytoceras (Gaudryceras) neptunium, Vertebrites murdochi, Gaudryceras (Neogaudryceras) pictum
Type specimen: CAS 1345.01, a shell. Its type locality is CAS 465, Texas Springs, which is in a Turonian marine siliciclastic in the Budden Canyon Formation of California.
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 25.0
Distribution: found only at CAS 465, Texas Springs
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