Cephalopoda - Phylloceratida - Phylloceratidae
Alternative combination: Phylloceras plasticum
Full reference: C. Burckhardt. 1927. Cefalópodos del Jurásico Medio de Oaxaca y Guerrero. Boletin Instituto Geologico Mexico 47:1-108
Belongs to Ptychophylloceras according to J. Sandoval et al. 1990
See also Burckhardt 1927
Sister taxa: Ptychophylloceras (Tatrophylloceras), Ptychophylloceras chonomphalum, Ptychophylloceras diphyllum, Ptychophylloceras euphyllum, Ptychophylloceras feddeni, Ptychophylloceras flabellatum, Ptychophylloceras lardyi, Ptychophylloceras popenoei, Ptychophylloceras ptychoicum, Ptychophylloceras saintoursi, Ptychophylloceras tatricum
Type specimen: IGL:IGM:1898-1913, a shell (complete ?macroconchs). Its type locality is Arroyo El Rincon, El Cuahulote - Tecojcoyunca Rd, which is in a Bathonian/Callovian marine horizon in the Yucunuti Formation of Mexico.
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution: found only at Arroyo El Rincon, El Cuahulote - Tecojcoyunca Rd
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