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 Otoscaphites according to C. W. Wright 1979
Sister taxa: Yezoites bladenensis, Yezoites matsumotoi, Yezoites orbignyi, Yezoites perrini, Yezoites pseudoaequalis, Yezoites puerculus, Yezoites seabeensis, Yezoites subevolutus, Otoscaphites (Otoscaphites), Otoscaphites (Hyposcaphites), Otoscaphites arnaudi
Type specimen: IGS Zr7952, a shell. Its type locality is Pit behind Broom & Wade factory, High Wycombe, which is in a Turonian carbonate chalk in the Lewes Nodular Chalk Formation of the United Kingdom.
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of the United Kingdom (4 collections)
Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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