Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Scaphitidae
Full reference: C. W. Wright. 1979. The ammonites of the English Chalk Rock (Upper Turonian). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Geology 31:281-332
Belongs to Scaphites according to C. W. Wright 1979
Sister taxa: Scaphites (Scaphites), Scaphites arcadiensis, Scaphites binneyi, Scaphites bosquensis, Scaphites corvensis, Scaphites delicatulus, Scaphites depressus, Scaphites equalis, Scaphites eruciformis, Scaphites ferronensis, Scaphites geinitzii, Scaphites gillisi, Scaphites hippocrepis, Scaphites mariasensis, Scaphites meriani, Scaphites nigricollensis, Scaphites obliquus, Scaphites patulus, Scaphites praecoquus, Scaphites preventricosus, Scaphites roemeri, Scaphites subdelicatulus, Scaphites ventricosus, Scaphites whitfieldi
Type specimen: SM B21299, a shell. Its type locality is Underwood Hall, which is in a Turonian carbonate chalk in the Upper Chalk Formation of the United Kingdom.
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Antarctica (1 collection), the United Kingdom (4)
Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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