Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Tetragonitidae
Alternative combination: Ammonites indra
Synonyms: Ammonites garuda Forbes 1846, Gaudryceras colloti de Grossouvre 1894
Full reference: E. Forbes. 1846. Report on the fossil invertebrata from southern India, collected by Mr. Kaye and Mr. Cunliffe. Transactions of the Geological Society of London, Series 2 7:97-174
Belongs to Pseudophyllites according to B. Niebuhr et al. 2016
See also Courville and Odin 2001, Forbes 1846, Henderson and McNamara 1985, Jones 1963, Kennedy 1986, Kennedy and Hancock 1993, Kennedy and Henderson 1992, Kennedy and Summesberger 1986, Klinger et al. 2001, Macellari 1986, Marshall 1926, Matsumoto 1959, Salazar et al. 2010, Shigeta and Maeda 2005, Ward and Kennedy 1993 and Zakharov et al. 2012
Sister taxa: Pseudophilites amphitrite, Pseudophilites nereidideditus, Pseudophyllites latus, Pseudophyllites loryi, Pseudophyllites pyrenaicus, Pseudophyllites teres
Type specimens:
- Pseudophyllites indra: Its type locality is Pondicherry, which is in a Maastrichtian marine sandstone/claystone in the Valudavur Formation of India
- Ammonites garuda: Its type locality is Pondicherry, which is in a Maastrichtian marine sandstone/claystone in the Valudavur Formation of India.
- Gaudryceras colloti: EMP 1776, a shell. Its type locality is Carrière Bernès, between Gan and Rébénacq (de Grossouvre collection), which is in a Maastrichtian marine marl in the Nay Formation of France.
Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 56.4
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Australia (21 collections), Austria (1), Canada (1: British Columbia), Chile (2), France (8), India (1), Iran (1), New Zealand (1), North Pacific (1), the Russian Federation (5), South Africa (2), Türkiye (1), United States (11: Alaska, California, New Jersey)
Total: 56 collections including 57 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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