Placenticeras maherndli Summesberger 1979 (ammonite)

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Placenticeratidae

Full reference: H. Summesberger. 1979. Eine obersantone Ammonitenfauna aus dem Becken von Gosau (Oberösterreich). Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 82:109-176

Belongs to Placenticeras according to W. J. Kennedy 1995

See also Summesberger 1979

Sister taxa: Placenticeras bidorsatum, Placenticeras cumminsi, Placenticeras fritschi, Placenticeras kaffrarium, Placenticeras kolbajense, Placenticeras mediasiaticum, Placenticeras memoriaschloenbachi, Placenticeras orbignyanum, Placenticeras paraplanum, Placenticeras placenta, Placenticeras polyopsis, Placenticeras pseudoplacenta, Placenticeras semiornatum, Placenticeras syrtale, Placenticeras tamulicum, Placenticeras vancouverense, Placenticeras vredenburgi, Placenticeras whitfieldi

Type specimen: MA 77/2, a shell. Its type locality is Finstergrabenwandl (Maherndl collection), which is in a Santonian shallow subtidal shale in the Hochmoos Formation of Austria.

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 90.4

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Austria (3 collections), France (2)

Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence

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