Cephalopoda - Nautilida - Nautilidae
Full reference: F. A. Sundberg. 1984. Two Cretaceous nautiloids from Baja California, Mexico, and southern California. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 83:43-52
Belongs to Anglonautilus according to J. Lehmann et al. 2017
See also Sundberg 1984
Sister taxa: Anglonautilus begudensis, Anglonautilus dorsoplicatus, Anglonautilus farringdonensis, Anglonautilus hewaidyi, Anglonautilus japonicus, Anglonautilus mamiyai, Anglonautilus praeundulatus, Anglonautilus subalbensis, Anglonautilus undulatus
Type specimen: UCLA 48184, a shell. Its type locality is UCLA loc. 3268, Arroyo Santa Catarina, which is in a Maastrichtian marine siliciclastic in the Rosario Formation of Mexico.
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 156.5
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Mexico (7 collections), United States (2: California)
Total: 9 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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