3D digital model database TYPE SPECIMENS of Cretaceous ammonoid in Japan

Scientific name Helicoceras scalare
Author Yabe, 1904
Reference Jour. Coll. Sci., Imp. Univ., Tokyo, Vol. 20, No. 2, p. 9, pl. 3, fig. 2.
Type specimen Holotype: UMUT MM7549a (= GT. I - 233)
Type locality Opiraushibets (=Obirashibe River), Tappu area, Obira Town, Rumoi Province, northwestern Hokkaido
Formation name Scaphites - beds (=Middle Yezo Group)
Age Senonian (Turonian), Upper Cretaceous
Remarks (= Scalarites scalaris (Yabe, 1904)) / Remarks: The generic position of this species was transferred to Polyptychoceras by Wright and Matsumoto (1954, p. 117). / Reference: Wright, C. W. and Matsumoto, T., 1954. Mem. Fac. Sci., Kyushu Univ., Ser. D, Vol. 4, No. 2, 107 - 134, pls. 7 - 8.
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