Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Baculitidae
Full reference: W. A. Cobban. 1958. Two new species of Baculites from the Western Interior Region. Journal of Paleontology 32(4):660-665
Belongs to Baculites according to W. A. Cobban 1958
Sister taxa: Baculites ambatryensis, Baculites anceps, Baculites annulatus, Baculites aquilaensis, Baculites asper, Baculites asperiformis, Baculites baculus, Baculites bailyi, Baculites boulei, Baculites brevicosta, Baculites capensis, Baculites chicoensis, Baculites claviformis, Baculites clinolobatus, Baculites cobbani, Baculites codyensis, Baculites compressus, Baculites crickmayi, Baculites cuneatus, Baculites fairbanksi, Baculites fuchsi, Baculites gilberti, Baculites grandis, Baculites gregoryensis, Baculites haresi, Baculites huenickeni, Baculites incurvatus, Baculites inornatus, Baculites jenseni, Baculites kirki, Baculites klingeri, Baculites knorrianus, Baculites lechitides, Baculites leopoliensis, Baculites lomaensis, Baculites mariasensis, Baculites mclearni, Baculites meeki, Baculites minerensis, Baculites nugssuaqensis, Baculites obtusus, Baculites occidentalis, Baculites ovatus, Baculites perplexus, Baculites pseudovatus, Baculites rectus, Baculites reduncus, Baculites reesidei, Baculites rex, Baculites rugosus, Baculites schenki, Baculites scotti, Baculites subanceps, Baculites subcircularis, Baculites tanakai, Baculites taylorensis, Baculites texanus, Baculites thomi, Baculites undatus, Baculites undulatus, Baculites vaalsensis, Baculites valognensis, Baculites vertebralis, Baculites yokoyamai
Type specimen: USNM 108969. Its type locality is D448. 19 miles south of Newcastle, just west of U. S. Highway 85, which is in a Campanian marine shale in the Pierre Shale Formation of Wyoming.
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of United States (19: Maryland, Wyoming collections)
Total: 19 collections each including a single occurrence
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