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 Maorites according to R. A. Henderson 1970

Sister taxa: Maorites densicostatus, Maorites mackayi, Maorites multiconstrictus, Maorites pseudobhavani, Maorites seymourianus, Maorites subtilistriatus, Maorites tenuicostatum, Maorites tuberculatus, Maorites weddelliensis

Type specimen: NZGS CE.2133, a shell. Its type locality is N28/f626, Bull's Point, Kaipara Harbour, which is in a Piripauan/Haumurian marine horizon in the Otamatea Formation of New Zealand.

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at N28/f626, Bull's Point, Kaipara Harbour

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