Pseudaganides portlandicus Foord and Crick 1890

Cephalopoda - Nautilida - Pseudonautilidae

Alternative combinations: Nautilus (Hercoglossa) portlandicus, Nautilus portlandicus

Full reference: A. H. Foord and G. C. Crick. 1890. On some new and imperfectly-defined species of Jurassic, Cretaceous, and Tertiary Nautili contained in the British Museum (Natural History). The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Sixth Series 6:388-409

Belongs to Pseudaganides according to B. Kummel 1956

See also Foord and Crick 1890 and von Loesch 1914

Sister taxa: Pseudaganides aganiticus, Pseudaganides ammoni, Pseudaganides argoviensis, Pseudaganides bodeni, Pseudaganides brunhuberi, Pseudaganides crassisinuatus, Pseudaganides drepanensis, Pseudaganides duilii, Pseudaganides franconicus, Pseudaganides frickensis, Pseudaganides girardoti, Pseudaganides gravesianus, Pseudaganides helveticus, Pseudaganides klebelsbergi, Pseudaganides kochi, Pseudaganides krenkeli, Pseudaganides ledonicus, Pseudaganides oppeli, Pseudaganides pulchellus, Pseudaganides roemeri, Pseudaganides rogeri, Pseudaganides royeri, Pseudaganides schlosseri, Pseudaganides schlotheimi, Pseudaganides schneidi, Pseudaganides schwertschlageri, Pseudaganides strambergensis, Pseudaganides stromeri, Pseudaganides tubingensis, Pseudaganides tukeryi

Type specimen: BMNH 62465, a shell

Average measurements (in mm): diameter 34.8

Distribution: found only at Isle of Portland (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

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