Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Diplomoceratidae
Alternative combination: Oxybeloceras petrolense
Full reference: F. M. Anderson. 1958. Upper Cretaceous of the Pacific Coast. Geological Society of America Memoir 71:1-378
Belongs to Pseudoxybeloceras according to T. Matsumoto 1959
See also Anderson 1958
Sister taxa: Pseudoxybeloceras (Parasolenoceras), Pseudoxybeloceras (Pseudoxybeloceras), Pseudoxybeloceras bicostatum, Pseudoxybeloceras compressum, Pseudoxybeloceras lineatum
Type specimen: Its type locality is CAS loc31364, Petroleum Creek, Rumsey Hills, which is in a Campanian marine conglomerate in California.
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of United States (3: California collections)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
Click image to enlarge. Click to access iDigBio record.