Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Turrilitidae

Full reference: M. A. Murphy and P. U. Rodda. 1960. Mollusca of the Cretaceous Bald Hills Formation of California. Journal of Paleontology 34(5):835-858

Belongs to Mariella (Mariella) according to M. A. Murphy and P. U. Rodda 1960

Sister taxa: Mariella (Mariella) asper, Mariella (Mariella) bergeri, Mariella (Mariella) boukhadraensis, Mariella (Mariella) camachoensis, Mariella (Mariella) circumtaeniata, Mariella (Mariella) davisense, Mariella (Mariella) essenensis, Mariella (Mariella) gresslyi, Mariella (Mariella) miliaris, Mariella (Mariella) nobilis, Mariella (Mariella) oehlerti, Mariella (Mariella) quadrituberculata, Mariella (Mariella) stolizcai, Mariella (Mariella) thomsoni

Type specimen: UCLA 28654. Its type locality is UCLA loc. 3467, North Fork Cottonwood Creek, which is in an Albian marine conglomerate in the Budden Canyon Formation of California.

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at UCLA loc. 3467, North Fork Cottonwood Creek

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