Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Dactylioceratidae
Full reference: J. Guex. 1971. Sue la classification des Dactylioceratidae (Ammonoidea) du Toarcien. Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae 64:225-243
Belongs to Rakusites according to J. Guex 1971
Sister taxa: Dactylioceras (Dactylioceras), Dactylioceras (Eodactylites), Dactylioceras (Iranodactylites), Dactylioceras (Orthodactylites), Dactylioceras alpestre, Dactylioceras amplum, Dactylioceras athleticum, Dactylioceras boreum, Dactylioceras commune, Dactylioceras consimile, Dactylioceras crassescens, Dactylioceras crassifactum, Dactylioceras crassiusculum, Dactylioceras holandrei, Dactylioceras kanense, Dactylioceras praepositum, Dactylioceras suntarense, Dactylioceras temperatum, Dactylioceras toxophorum
Type specimen: MGL 45161, a shell. Its type locality is Stocklinch, near Ilminster, which is in a Bifrons marine horizon in the United Kingdom.
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 51.0
Distribution: found only at Stocklinch, near Ilminster
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