Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Neocomitidae
Alternative combination: Hoplites dilleri
Full reference: T. W. Stanton. 1895. Contributions to the Cretaceous paleontology of the Pacific coast. : The fauna of the Knoxville. Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey 133:1-132
Belongs to Kossmatia according to R. W. Imlay and D. L. Jones 1970
See also Anderson 1945 and Stanton 1895
Sister taxa: Kossmatia alamitosensis, Kossmatia bifurcata, Kossmatia exceptionalis, Kossmatia flexicostata, Kossmatia kingi, Kossmatia kleinsorgensis, Kossmatia purisima, Kossmatia rancheriasensis, Kossmatia tehamaensis, Kossmatia varicostata, Kossmatia victoris, Kossmatia viterboensis, Kossmatia zacatecana
Type specimen: USNM 21573
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution: found only at USGS Mesozoic loc. 666 (Jurassic of California)
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