Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Pachydiscidae
Full reference: C. J. Maury. 1930. O Cretaceo da Parahyba do Norte. Serviço Geologico E Mineralogico do Brasil Monographia 8:1-305
Belongs to Parapachydiscus according to C. J. Maury 1930
Sister taxa: Pachydiscus (Neodesmoceras), Pachydiscus (Pachydiscus), Pachydiscus armenicus, Pachydiscus besairiei, Pachydiscus binodatus, Pachydiscus buckhami, Pachydiscus colligatus, Pachydiscus epiplectus, Pachydiscus excelsus, Pachydiscus flexuosus, Pachydiscus gollevillensis, Pachydiscus hauthali, Pachydiscus launayi, Pachydiscus levyi, Pachydiscus naumanni, Pachydiscus neevesi, Pachydiscus patagonicus, Pachydiscus peramplus, Pachydiscus perfidus, Pachydiscus precolligatus, Pachydiscus riccardi, Pachydiscus stallauensis, Pachydiscus steinmanni, Pachydiscus subcompressus, Pachydiscus subrobustus, Parapachydiscus arionis, Parapachydiscus gettyi, Parapachydiscus orpheus, Parapachydiscus diabloensis, Parapachydiscus psyche, Parapachydiscus eurydice, Parapachydiscus henleyensis, Parapachydiscus endymion, Parapachydiscus sumneri, Parapachydiscus perseus, Pachydiscus (Parapachydiscus) woodringi, Parapachydiscus stanislausensis, Parapachydiscus reedsi, Parapachydiscus hera, Parapachydiscus abbotti, Parapachydiscus albuquerquei, Parapachydiscus poseidon, Parapachydiscus cortinaensis, Parapachydiscus bruneti, Parapachydiscus athena, Pachydiscus (Parapachydiscus) gardneri, Parapachydiscus californicus, Parapachydiscus hermes, Parapachydiscus williamsoni, Parapachydiscus euzebioi, Parapachydiscus oceanus, Parapachydiscus brasiliensis
Type specimen: Its type locality is Loc. 24 (of Cel. Dos Santos), Right bank of Rio Gramame (Sphenodiscus zone), which is in a Maastrichtian carbonate limestone in Brazil.
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution: found only at Loc. 24 (of Cel. Dos Santos), Right bank of Rio Gramame (Sphenodiscus zone)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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