Menuites gerardoi Salazar et al. 2010 (ammonite)

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Pachydiscidae

Full reference: C. Salazar, W. Stinnesbeck, and L. A. Quinzio-Sinn. 2010. Ammonites from the Maastrichtian (Upper Cretaceous) Quiriquina Formation in central Chile. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 257:181-236

Belongs to Menuites according to C. Salazar et al. 2010

Sister taxa: Menuites arrialoorensis, Menuites costatus, Menuites fresvillensis, Menuites menu, Menuites oralensis, Menuites portlocki, Menuites sanadai, Menuites soyaensis, Menuites wittekindi, Anapachydiscus peninsularis, Anapachydiscus fascicostatus, Anapachydiscus terminus, Anapachydiscus californicus, Anapachydiscus nelchinensis, Anapachydiscus subtililobatum

Type specimen: CPUC/Q/SV/1455, a shell. Its type locality is San Vicente (locality SV, beds with concretions), which is in a Maastrichtian marine sandstone in the Quiriquina Formation of Chile.

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 295.7

Distribution: found only at San Vicente (locality SV, beds with concretions)

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