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
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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