Pachydiscus excelsus Matsumoto 1979 (ammonite)

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Pachydiscidae

Belongs to Pachydiscus according to Y. Shigeta 2016

Sister taxa: Pachydiscus (Neodesmoceras), Pachydiscus (Pachydiscus), Pachydiscus armenicus, Pachydiscus besairiei, Pachydiscus binodatus, Pachydiscus buckhami, Pachydiscus colligatus, Pachydiscus epiplectus, Pachydiscus flexuosus, Pachydiscus gollevillensis, Pachydiscus hauthali, Pachydiscus launayi, Pachydiscus levyi, Pachydiscus naumanni, Pachydiscus neevesi, Pachydiscus patagonicus, Pachydiscus peramplus, Pachydiscus perfidus, Pachydiscus precolligatus, Pachydiscus riccardi, Pachydiscus stallauensis, Pachydiscus steinmanni, Pachydiscus subcompressus, Pachydiscus subrobustus, Parapachydiscus orpheus, Parapachydiscus euzebioi, Parapachydiscus psyche, Parapachydiscus williamsoni, Parapachydiscus albuquerquei, Parapachydiscus athena, Parapachydiscus cortinaensis, Pachydiscus (Parapachydiscus) woodringi, Parapachydiscus endymion, Parapachydiscus eurydice, Parapachydiscus diabloensis, Parapachydiscus oceanus, Parapachydiscus henleyensis, Parapachydiscus gettyi, Parapachydiscus stanislausensis, Parapachydiscus abbotti, Pachydiscus (Parapachydiscus) gardneri, Parapachydiscus reedsi, Parapachydiscus poseidon, Parapachydiscus perseus, Parapachydiscus hermes, Parapachydiscus brasiliensis, Parapachydiscus arionis, Parapachydiscus hera, Parapachydiscus parahybensis, Parapachydiscus californicus, Parapachydiscus bruneti, Parapachydiscus sumneri

Type specimen: GK.H5895, a shell

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Locality 15, Urakawa (Cretaceous of Japan)

Show more details


Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.


Click image to enlarge. Click to access iDigBio record.