Cephalopoda - Nautilida - Clydonautilidae
Full reference: B. Kummel. 1953. American Triassic coiled nautiloids. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 250:1-104
Belongs to Proclydonautilus according to B. Kummel 1953
Sister taxa: Proclydonautilus anianiensis, Proclydonautilus gasteroptychus, Proclydonautilus goniatites, Proclydonautilus hessi, Proclydonautilus kiparisovae, Proclydonautilus natosini, Proclydonautilus okhotensis, Proclydonautilus pseudoseimkanensis, Proclydonautilus seimkanensis, Proclydonautilus sinekensis, Proclydonautilus spirolobus, Proclydonautilus stantoni, Proclydonautilus triadicus, Proclydonautilus ursensis
Type specimen: USNM 74124, a shell. Its type locality is Bear Cove, north end and east side of Brock Mountain, which is in a Tuvalian carbonate limestone in the Hosselkus Formation of California.
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 18.7
Distribution: found only at Bear Cove, north end and east side of Brock Mountain
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