Mucrodactylites clapierensis Guex 1972 (ammonite)

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Dactylioceratidae

Full reference: J. Guex. 1972. Réparation biostratigraphique des ammonites du Toarcien moyen de la bordure sud des Causses (France) et révision des ammonites décrites et figurées par Monestier (1931). Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae 65:611-645

Belongs to Mucrodactylites according to J. Guex 1972

Sister taxa: Collina gemma, Collina lauxi, Collina linae, Collina nicklesi, Collina pseudoyoungi, Collina spinata, Mucrodactylites freboldi, Mucrodactylites marioni, Mucrodactylites gracilis, Mucrodactylites mucronatus, Mucrodactylites sorguensis

Type specimen: Musée d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève G110, a shell. Its type locality is Le Clapier, bed 30 lower, which is in a Bifrons carbonate marl in France.

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 25.8

Distribution:

• Jurassic of France (8 collections)

Total: 8 collections each including a single occurrence

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