Cephalopoda - Phylloceratida - Phylloceratidae
Full reference: M. A. Murphy and P. U. Rodda. 2006. California Early Cretaceous Phylloceratidae (Ammonoidea). University of California, Riverside, Campus Museum Contribution 7:1-98
Belongs to Phyllopachyceras according to M. A. Murphy and P. U. Rodda 2006
Sister taxa: Phyllopachyceras baborense, Phyllopachyceras beneckei, Phyllopachyceras bontshevi, Phyllopachyceras chitianum, Phyllopachyceras ectocostatum, Phyllopachyceras eichwaldi, Phyllopachyceras ezoense, Phyllopachyceras forbesianum, Phyllopachyceras gignouxi, Phyllopachyceras hourcqi, Phyllopachyceras infundibulum, Phyllopachyceras laeviventris, Phyllopachyceras occidentale, Phyllopachyceras oregonense, Phyllopachyceras petkovici, Phyllopachyceras sayni, Phyllopachyceras sextonae, Phyllopachyceras theresae, Phyllopachyceras umpquanum, Phyllopachyceras umpuanum, Phyllopachyceras viator, Phyllopachyceras winkleri
Type specimen: CAS G 69547. Its type locality is CAS loc. 1344, Old Horsetown, Clear Creek, which is in a Berriasian/Turonian marine horizon in the Budden Canyon Formation of California.
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution: found only at CAS loc. 1344, Old Horsetown, Clear Creek
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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