Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Diplomoceratidae
Alternative combinations: Hamites subcompressus, Neohamites subcompressus
Full reference: E. Forbes. 1846. Report on the fossil invertebrata from southern India, collected by Mr. Kaye and Mr. Cunliffe. Transactions of the Geological Society of London, Series 2 7:97-174
Belongs to Glyptoxoceras according to J. W. Haggart and R. Graham 2018
See also Atabekyan and Khakimov 1976, Brunnschweiler 1966, Forbes 1846 and Kennedy and Henderson 1992
Sister taxa: Glyptoxoceras aquisgranense, Glyptoxoceras brasiliense, Glyptoxoceras circulare, Glyptoxoceras crispatum, Glyptoxoceras ellisoni, Glyptoxoceras indicum, Glyptoxoceras largesulcatum, Glyptoxoceras nipponicum, Glyptoxoceras parahybense, Glyptoxoceras retrorsum, Glyptoxoceras rugatum, Glyptoxoceras souqueti, Glyptoxoceras tenuisulcatum, Glyptoxoceras texanum, Glyptoxoceras wakanenei
Type specimen: Its type locality is Pondicherry, which is in a Maastrichtian marine sandstone/claystone in the Valudavur Formation of India
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Australia (1 collection), Canada (1: British Columbia), India (1), the Netherlands (1), South Africa (2), Tajikistan (1), United States (2: California)
Total: 9 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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