Puzosia cuvervillei Meunier 1888 (ammonite)

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae

Alternative combination: Desmoceras cuvervillei

Full reference: S. Meunier. 1888. Contribution à la géologie de l'Afrique occidentale. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France, Troisième Série 16:61-63

Belongs to Puzosia according to O. Haas 1942

See also Meunier 1888 and Spath 1922

Sister taxa: Puzosia (Anapuzosia), Puzosia (Bhimaites), Puzosia (Latidorsella), Puzosia (Puzosia), Puzosia alaskana, Puzosia aldersona, Puzosia ambigua, Puzosia angladei, Puzosia bistricta, Puzosia brasiliana, Puzosia compressa, Puzosia crebrisulcata, Puzosia diadema, Puzosia hoffmanni, Puzosia intermedia, Puzosia lata, Puzosia longmani, Puzosia media, Puzosia nipponica, Puzosia nolani, Puzosia octosulcata, Puzosia puma, Puzosia quenstedti, Puzosia skidegatensis, Puzosia spathi, Puzosia subquadrata, Puzosia sullivanae, Puzosia tenuis

Subtaxa: Puzosia cuvervillei flexisulcata

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Type specimen: Its type locality is North cliff, Lobito Bay, which is in an Albian carbonate limestone in Angola

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Angola (2 collections)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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