Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Otoitidae
Full reference: R. B. Chandler and V. Dietze. 2004. New data on the Lower Bajocian (Middle Jurassic) ammonite genus Mollistephanus Buckman, 1922 from southern England. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association 115:221-234
Belongs to Mollistephanus according to R. B. Chandler and V. Dietze 2004
Sister taxa: Mollistephanus kondai, Mollistephanus lupheri, Mollistephanus mollis, Mollistephanus ottiliae, Mollistephanus planulatus, Mollistephanus westermanni
Type specimen: SM # X29280., a shell. Its type locality is Cockroad Farm near Beaminster, which is in a Bajocian marine carbonate in the Inferior Oolite Formation of the United Kingdom.
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution: found only at Cockroad Farm near Beaminster
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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