Oregoniceras phoenixense Anderson 1958 (ammonite)

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Collignoniceratidae

Full reference: F. M. Anderson. 1958. Upper Cretaceous of the Pacific Coast. Geological Society of America Memoir 71:1-378

Belongs to Oregoniceras according to F. M. Anderson 1958

Sister taxa: Subprionocyclus branneri, Subprionocyclus hitchinensis, Subprionocyclus neptuni, Subprionocyclus normalis, Oregoniceras multicostum, Oregoniceras condoni, Oregoniceras argonautarum, Oregoniceras jacksonense

Type specimen: CAS 61812.01, a shell. Its type locality is Forty-nine mine, south of Phoenix (Turonian blocks), which is in a Turonian marine siliciclastic in Oregon.

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 39.8

Distribution: found only at Forty-nine mine, south of Phoenix (Turonian blocks)

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