Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae
Alternative combinations: Ammonites octosulcatus, Puzosia (Puzosia) octosulcata
Full reference: D. Sharpe. 1853. Descriptions of the new species of Zoophyta and Mollusca (appendix B to Ribeiro, Carlos, Carboniferous and Silurian formation of the neighborhood of Bussaco in Portugal). Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 9(1):143-158
Belongs to Puzosia according to P. Juignet and W. J. Kennedy 1976
See also Kennedy 1971 and Sharpe 1853
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 cuvervillei, Puzosia diadema, Puzosia hoffmanni, Puzosia intermedia, Puzosia lata, Puzosia longmani, Puzosia media, Puzosia nipponica, Puzosia nolani, Puzosia puma, Puzosia quenstedti, Puzosia skidegatensis, Puzosia spathi, Puzosia subquadrata, Puzosia sullivanae, Puzosia tenuis
Type specimen: GSM 7761
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of the Russian Federation (1 collection), the United Kingdom (1)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
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