Glyptoxoceras parahybense Maury 1930 (ammonite)

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Diplomoceratidae

Full reference: C. J. Maury. 1930. O Cretaceo da Parahyba do Norte. Serviço Geologico E Mineralogico do Brasil Monographia 8:1-305

Belongs to Glyptoxoceras according to C. J. Maury 1930

Sister taxa: Glyptoxoceras aquisgranense, Glyptoxoceras brasiliense, Glyptoxoceras circulare, Glyptoxoceras crispatum, Glyptoxoceras ellisoni, Glyptoxoceras indicum, Glyptoxoceras largesulcatum, Glyptoxoceras nipponicum, Glyptoxoceras retrorsum, Glyptoxoceras rugatum, Glyptoxoceras souqueti, Glyptoxoceras subcompressum, Glyptoxoceras tenuisulcatum, Glyptoxoceras texanum, Glyptoxoceras wakanenei

Type specimen: Its type locality is Right bank of Rio Gramame (Sphenodiscus zone), which is in a Maastrichtian/Maastrichtian carbonate limestone in the Gramame Formation of Brazil

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Right bank of Rio Gramame (Sphenodiscus zone)

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