Polyptychites hesperius Anderson 1938 (ammonite)

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Polyptychitidae

Full reference: F. M. Anderson. 1938. Lower Cretaceous deposits in California and Oregon. Geological Society of America Special Paper 16:1-331

Belongs to Polyptychites according to F. M. Anderson 1938

Sister taxa: Polyptychites (Amundiptychites), Polyptychites (Astieriptychites), Polyptychites (Euryptychites), Polyptychites (Paleodichotomites), Polyptychites (Polyptychites), Polyptychites (Primitiviptychites), Polyptychites (Siberiptychites), Polyptychites balkwilli, Polyptychites brancoi, Polyptychites canadensis, Polyptychites clarkei, Polyptychites hapkei, Polyptychites hoeli, Polyptychites lamplughi, Polyptychites multicostatus, Polyptychites multiplicatus, Polyptychites oerlinghusanus, Polyptychites orbitatus, Polyptychites pavlowi, Polyptychites saxonicus, Polyptychites sublatissimus, Polyptychites tethyale, Polyptychites traski, Polyptychites trichotomus, Polyptychites villersensis

Type specimen: Its type locality is CAS Loc113, Mitchell Creek, which is in a Hauterivian marine siliciclastic in the Budden Canyon Formation of California.

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Polyptychites hesperius in the database

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