Phylloceras gargantuum Anderson 1958 (ammonite)

Cephalopoda - Phylloceratida - Phylloceratidae

Alternative combination: Neophylloceras garganteum

Full reference: F. M. Anderson. 1958. Upper Cretaceous of the Pacific Coast. Geological Society of America Memoir 71:1-378

Belongs to Phylloceras according to F. M. Anderson 1958

See also Matsumoto 1960

Sister taxa: Phylloceras (Geyeroceras), Phylloceras (Goretophylloceras), Phylloceras (Gyrophylloceras), Phylloceras (Hypophylloceras), Phylloceras (Phylloceras), Phylloceras (Triphyllites), Phylloceras album, Phylloceras asperaense, Phylloceras bakeri, Phylloceras burckhardti, Phylloceras contrarium, Phylloceras cylindricoides, Phylloceras doderleinianum, Phylloceras duodecimsulcatum, Phylloceras empedoclis, Phylloceras glennense, Phylloceras guettardi, Phylloceras haloricum, Phylloceras hebertinum, Phylloceras hebertinus, Phylloceras heterophyllum, Phylloceras insulare, Phylloceras isotypum, Phylloceras knoxvillense, Phylloceras kudernatschi, Phylloceras kunthi, Phylloceras lipoldi, Phylloceras lodaiense, Phylloceras meneghinii, Phylloceras micipsa, Phylloceras nilsoni, Phylloceras occiduale, Phylloceras persanense, Phylloceras praeposterium, Phylloceras psilomorphum, Phylloceras rouyanum, Phylloceras saxonicum, Phylloceras semistriatum, Phylloceras semisulcatum, Phylloceras seresitense, Phylloceras serum, Phylloceras shastalense, Phylloceras subplicatius, Phylloceras supraliasicum, Phylloceras timothyi, Phylloceras trifoliatum, Phylloceras velaini, Phylloceras vicarum

Type specimen: Its type locality is CAS Loc28542 - Moreno Gulch [Asuncion Gp], which is in a Santonian marine shale in California.

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at CAS Loc. 28542 - Moreno Gulch [Asuncion Gp]

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