Anglonautilus mamiyai Matsumoto and Miyauchi 1983 (nautiloid)

Cephalopoda - Nautilida - Nautilidae

Full reference: T. Matsumoto and T. Miyauchi. 1983. Cretaceous Nautiloids from Hokkaido-III Part 3. Some Nautiloids from the Campanian of Soya, Northern Hokkaido. Transactions and Proceedings of the Paleontological Society of Japan, N.S. 132:220-229

Belongs to Anglonautilus according to T. Matsumoto and T. Miyauchi 1983

Sister taxa: Anglonautilus begudensis, Anglonautilus catarinae, Anglonautilus dorsoplicatus, Anglonautilus farringdonensis, Anglonautilus hewaidyi, Anglonautilus japonicus, Anglonautilus praeundulatus, Anglonautilus subalbensis, Anglonautilus undulatus

Type specimen: MNH 147, a shell. Its type locality is Location 4, Kiyohama-II (Orannai), Cape Soya, which is in a Campanian marine siltstone in Japan.

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 95.0

Distribution: found only at Location 4, Kiyohama-II (Orannai), Cape Soya

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