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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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Subclass: | Ammonoidea |
| Order: | Ammonitida |
| Superfamily: | Hoplitaceae |
| Family: | Placenticeratidae |
| Genus: | Placenticeras |
| Species: | 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. Fossils of Placenticeras whitfieldi have been found only in Mexico.
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