Bostrychoceras californicum Anderson 1958 (ammonite)

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Nostoceratidae

Full reference: F. M. Anderson. 1958. Upper Cretaceous of the Pacific Coast. Geological Society of America Memoir 71:1-378

Belongs to Bostrychoceras according to F. M. Anderson 1958

Sister taxa: Bostrychoceras brewerii, Bostrychoceras columbianum, Bostrychoceras declive, Bostrychoceras elongatum, Bostrychoceras indicum, Bostrychoceras occidentale, Bostrychoceras otsukai, Bostrychoceras polyplocum, Bostrychoceras puertoense, Bostrychoceras sanctaeanae, Bostrychoceras serpiens, Bostrychoceras trabucoense, Bostrychoceras vermiculare

Type specimen: Its type locality is UCLA loc3461, west side of Anchor Avenue, Cheviot Hills, which is in a Pleistocene coastal siltstone in the Anchor Formation of California.

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Bostrychoceras californicum in the database

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