Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Pachydiscidae
Full reference: F. M. Anderson. 1958. Upper Cretaceous of the Pacific Coast. Geological Society of America Memoir 71:1-378
Belongs to Parapachydiscus according to F. M. Anderson 1958
Sister taxa: Pachydiscus (Neodesmoceras), Pachydiscus (Pachydiscus), Pachydiscus armenicus, Pachydiscus besairiei, Pachydiscus binodatus, Pachydiscus buckhami, Pachydiscus colligatus, Pachydiscus epiplectus, Pachydiscus excelsus, Pachydiscus flexuosus, Pachydiscus gollevillensis, Pachydiscus hauthali, Pachydiscus launayi, Pachydiscus levyi, Pachydiscus naumanni, Pachydiscus neevesi, Pachydiscus patagonicus, Pachydiscus peramplus, Pachydiscus perfidus, Pachydiscus precolligatus, Pachydiscus riccardi, Pachydiscus stallauensis, Pachydiscus steinmanni, Pachydiscus subcompressus, Pachydiscus subrobustus, Parapachydiscus athena, Parapachydiscus psyche, Parapachydiscus hera, Parapachydiscus endymion, Parapachydiscus euzebioi, Parapachydiscus hermes, Parapachydiscus parahybensis, Parapachydiscus diabloensis, Parapachydiscus bruneti, Parapachydiscus perseus, Parapachydiscus gettyi, Pachydiscus (Parapachydiscus) gardneri, Parapachydiscus henleyensis, Parapachydiscus californicus, Parapachydiscus abbotti, Parapachydiscus brasiliensis, Parapachydiscus eurydice, Parapachydiscus arionis, Parapachydiscus reedsi, Parapachydiscus poseidon, Parapachydiscus albuquerquei, Pachydiscus (Parapachydiscus) woodringi, Parapachydiscus orpheus, Parapachydiscus oceanus, Parapachydiscus sumneri, Parapachydiscus williamsoni, Parapachydiscus stanislausensis
Type specimen: CAS 25730.05, a shell. Its type locality is CAS Loc. 25730 - Sand Creek [Forbes Shale], which is in a Coniacian marine shale in the Forbes Formation of California.
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Parapachydiscus cortinaensis in the database
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