Cephalopoda - Nautilida - Clydonautilidae
Alternative combination: Clydonautilus hessi
Full reference: J. P. Smith. 1927. Upper Triassic marine invertebrate faunas of North America. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 141:1-262
Belongs to Proclydonautilus according to B. Kummel 1953
See also Smith 1927
Sister taxa: Proclydonautilus anianiensis, Proclydonautilus gasteroptychus, Proclydonautilus goniatites, Proclydonautilus kiparisovae, Proclydonautilus natosini, Proclydonautilus okhotensis, Proclydonautilus pseudoseimkanensis, Proclydonautilus seimkanensis, Proclydonautilus sinekensis, Proclydonautilus spirolobus, Proclydonautilus squawensis, Proclydonautilus stantoni, Proclydonautilus triadicus, Proclydonautilus ursensis
Type specimen: Its type locality is Brock Mountain, 3 miles east of Madison's ranch (Trachyceras subzone), which is in a Tuvalian carbonate limestone in the Hosselkus Formation of California
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution: found only at Brock Mountain, 3 miles east of Madison's ranch (Trachyceras subzone)
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