Dombarocanites masoni Gordon, Jr. 1964 (ammonite)

Cephalopoda - Prolecanitida - Prolecanitidae

Full reference: M. Gordon, Jr. 1964. California Carboniferous cephalopods. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 483-A:A1-A27

Belongs to Dombarocanites according to A. L. Titus 2000

See also Gordon 1964 and Ruzhentsev and Bogoslovskaya 1971

Sister taxa: Dombarocanites catillus, Dombarocanites chancharensis, Dombarocanites warreni

Type specimen: LSJU 9168. Its type locality is LSJU loc. 23146, Cerro Gordo Spring Trail, which is in an Arnsbergian marine shale in the Rest Spring Formation of California.

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at LSJU loc. 23146, Cerro Gordo Spring Trail

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