Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Scaphitidae
Alternative combinations: Ammonites hippocrepis, Scaphites (Scaphites) hippocrepis
Synonym: Scaphites nanclasi Coquand 1859
Belongs to Scaphites according to C. Ifrim et al. 2013
See also Anderson 1958, Cobban and Kennedy 1992, Kennedy 1986, Kennedy and Cobban 1993, Kennedy et al. 1997 and Szives 2007
Sister taxa: Scaphites (Scaphites), Scaphites arcadiensis, Scaphites binneyi, Scaphites bosquensis, Scaphites corvensis, Scaphites delicatulus, Scaphites depressus, Scaphites diana, Scaphites equalis, Scaphites eruciformis, Scaphites ferronensis, Scaphites geinitzii, Scaphites gillisi, Scaphites mariasensis, Scaphites meriani, Scaphites nigricollensis, Scaphites obliquus, Scaphites patulus, Scaphites praecoquus, Scaphites preventricosus, Scaphites roemeri, Scaphites subdelicatulus, Scaphites ventricosus, Scaphites whitfieldi
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of France (12 collections), Mexico (1), United States (15: California, Colorado, Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New Mexico, Texas, Wyoming)
Total: 28 collections including 29 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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