Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae
Alternative combination: Beudanticeras argonauticum
Full reference: F. M. Anderson. 1958. Upper Cretaceous of the Pacific Coast. Geological Society of America Memoir 71:1-378
Belongs to Desmoceras (Pseudouhligella) according to M. A. Murphy and P. U. Rodda 1960
See also Anderson 1958
Sister taxa: Desmoceras (Pseudoughligella) bearskinense, Desmoceras (Pseudoughligella) dawsoni, Desmoceras (Pseudoughligella) subezoanum, Desmoceras (Pseudouhligella) alamoense, Desmoceras (Pseudouhligella) barryae, Desmoceras (Pseudouhligella) bearskinense, Desmoceras (Pseudouhligella) calabarense, Desmoceras (Pseudouhligella) ezoanum, Desmoceras (Pseudouhligella) intrapunctatum, Desmoceras (Pseudouhligella) japonicum, Desmoceras (Pseudouhligella) poronaicum, Desmoceras (Pseudouhligella) shikokuense, Desmoceras (Pseudouhligella) vetus
Type specimen: CAS 1346.01, a shell. Its type locality is CAS Loc. 1346, Ono, which is in an Albian marine siliciclastic in the Budden Canyon Formation of California.
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 71.0
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of United States (6: California collections)
Total: 6 collections each including a single occurrence
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