Cymatoceras hunstantonensis Foord and Crick 1890 (mollusk)

Cephalopoda - Nautilida - Nautilidae

Alternative combination: Nautilus hunstantonensis

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 Cymatoceras according to B. Kummel 1956

See also Foord and Crick 1890

Sister taxa: Cymatoceras albense, Cymatoceras atlas, Cymatoceras bayfieldi, Cymatoceras bifidum, Cymatoceras bifurcatum, Cymatoceras carlottense, Cymatoceras cenomanense, Cymatoceras colombiana, Cymatoceras columbinum, Cymatoceras crebricostatum, Cymatoceras deslongchampsianum, Cymatoceras eichwaldi, Cymatoceras elegans, Cymatoceras hendersoni, Cymatoceras hilli, Cymatoceras honmai, Cymatoceras huxleyanum, Cymatoceras karakaschi, Cymatoceras kayeanum, Cymatoceras kossmati, Cymatoceras loricatum, Cymatoceras ludevigi, Cymatoceras manuanensis, Cymatoceras mikado, Cymatoceras neckerianum, Cymatoceras negama, Cymatoceras neocomiense, Cymatoceras pacificum, Cymatoceras paralibanoticum, Cymatoceras patagonicum, Cymatoceras patens, Cymatoceras perstriatum, Cymatoceras picteti, Cymatoceras pseudoatlas, Cymatoceras pseudoelegans, Cymatoceras pseudonegama, Cymatoceras pseudoneokomiense, Cymatoceras pulchrum, Cymatoceras radiatum, Cymatoceras renngarteni, Cymatoceras sakalavum, Cymatoceras sarysuense, Cymatoceras savelievi, Cymatoceras semilobatum, Cymatoceras sharpei, Cymatoceras tenuicostatum, Cymatoceras tourtiae, Cymatoceras tskaltsithelense, Cymatoceras tsukushiense, Cymatoceras virgatum, Cymatoceras yabei, Nautilus (Cymatoceras) formosus, Nautilus (Cymatoceras) hermosus, Nautilus (Cymatoceras) saussureanus

Type specimen: BMNH C.932, a shell

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Average measurements (in mm): diameter 58.0

Distribution: found only at Hunstanton (Lee collection) (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)

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