Lambdoceras hessei Stirton 1967

Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Protoceratidae

Alternative combination: Prosynthetoceras hessei

Full reference: R. A. Stirton. 1967. Relationships of the protoceratid artiodactyls, and description of a new genus. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 72:1-43

Belongs to Lambdoceras according to L. B. Albright 1999

See also Patton 1969, Patton and Taylor 1971, Patton and Taylor 1973, Prothero 1998 and Tedford et al. 1987

Sister taxa: Lambdoceras siouxensis, Lambdoceras trinitiensis

Type specimen: UCMP 32372, an other (maxillary rostral horn). Its type locality is Flint Hill North, which is in a Hemingfordian terrestrial horizon in the Batesland Formation of South Dakota.

Distribution: found only at Flint Hill North

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