Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Kossmaticeratidae

Full reference: R. A. Henderson. 1970. Ammonoidea from the Mata Series (Santonian-Maastrichtian) of New Zealand. Special Papers in Palaeontology 6:1-82

Belongs to Jacobites (Jacobites) according to R. A. Henderson 1970

Sister taxa: Jacobites (Jacobites) angularis, Jacobites (Jacobites) flexicostatus, Jacobites (Jacobites) maximus, Jacobites (Jacobites) minimus, Jacobites (Jacobites) nodulosus, Jacobites (Jacobites) quadratus, Jacobites (Jacobites) stevensi, Jacobites (Jacobites) ultimus, Jacobites (Jacobites) whangaroaensis

Type specimen: NZGS CE.2138, a shell. Its type locality is Q08/f9639, Southern banks of Opu Creek, Upper Kaipara Harbour, which is in a Haumurian marine horizon in the Otamatea Formation of New Zealand.

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Q08/f9639, Southern banks of Opu Creek, Upper Kaipara Harbour

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