Placenticeras whitfieldi
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| Placenticeras whitfieldi Temporal range: Late Cretaceous
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| Fossil shell of Placenticeras whitfieldi showing punctures caused by the bite of a mosasaur. Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale | |
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P. whitfieldi
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| Placenticeras whitfieldi Hyatt, 1903
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Placenticeras whitfieldi is an ammonite species from the Late Cretaceous. These cephalopods were fast-moving nektonic carnivores.
References
- Placenticeras in the Paleobiology Database
- Sepkoski, Jack Sepkoski's Online Genus Database – Cephalopodes
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