Aspenites Hyatt and Smith 1905 (ceratite)

Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Aspenitidae

Synonym: Hemiaspenites Kummel and Steele 1962

Full reference: A. Hyatt and J. P. Smith. 1905. The Triassic cephalopod genera of America. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 40:1-394

Parent taxon: Aspenitidae according to M. Đaković et al. 2022

See also Brayard et al. 2013, Kummel and Steele 1962, Sepkoski 2002, Shigeta and Nguyen 2014, Spath 1934 and Tozer 1981

Sister taxa: none

Subtaxa: Aspenites acutus Aspenites chaoxianensis Aspenites kamurensis Aspenites radiatus

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Type: Aspenites acutus

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

• Triassic of China (29 collections), India (9), Indonesia (2), Japan (3), Oman (13), the Russian Federation (1), Serbia and Montenegro (1), United States (21: Alaska, California, Idaho, Nevada, Utah), Vietnam (2)

Total: 81 collections including 86 occurrences

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