Blanfordiceras muktinathense Helmstaedt 1969 (ammonite)

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Neocomitidae

Full reference: H. Helmstaedt. 1969. Eine Ammoniten-Fauna aus den Spiti-Schiefern von Muktinath in Nepal. Zitteliana 1:63-88

Belongs to Blanfordiceras according to H. Helmstaedt 1969

Sister taxa: Blanfordiceras (Blanfordiceras), Blanfordiceras acuticosta, Blanfordiceras applanatum, Blanfordiceras boehmi, Blanfordiceras californicum, Blanfordiceras cricki, Blanfordiceras latidomus, Blanfordiceras rotundidoma, Blanfordiceras subquadratum, Blanfordiceras tenuicostatum, Blanfordiceras wallichi

Type specimen: BSPG 1962 XXI 138, a shell

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Muktinath, nördlich des Annapuma-Massivs (Jurassic of Nepal)

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