Rhaeboceras burkholderi Cobban 1987 (ammonite)

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Scaphitidae

Full reference: W. A. Cobban. 1987. The Upper Cretaceous ammonite Rhaeboceras Meek in the western interior of the United States. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 1477:1-15

Belongs to Rhaeboceras according to J. C. Grier and J. W. Grier 1998

See also Cobban 1987

Sister taxa: Ammonites opalus, Rhaeboceras albertense, Rhaeboceras cedarense, Rhaeboceras coloradoense, Rhaeboceras halli, Rhaeboceras mullananum, Rhaeboceras subglobosum, Rhaeboceras whiteavesi

Type specimen: USNM 413047, a shell. Its type locality is USGS Mesozoic D5663, east of Mosby, which is in a Campanian marine shale in the Bearpaw Shale Formation of Montana.

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of United States (2: Montana collections)

Total: 2 collections including 3 occurrences

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