Flexoptychites Spath 1951 (ceratite)

Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Ptychitidae

Full reference: L. F. Spath. 1951. Catalogue of the Fossil Cephalopoda in the British Museum (Natural History), Part V, The Ammonoidea of the Trias (II) 1-228

Parent taxon: Ptychitidae according to A. Vörös 2018

See also Fantini Sestini 1996, Sepkoski 2002, Spath 1951 and Tozer 1981

Sister taxa: none

Subtaxa: Flexoptychites acutus Flexoptychites angustoumbilicatus Flexoptychites bugunzhensis Flexoptychites flexuosus Flexoptychites matsushimaensis Flexoptychites studeri

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Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

• Triassic of Austria (9 collections), Bosnia and Herzegovina (9), Germany (2), Greece (5), Hungary (92), Italy (20), Japan (1), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (2), Switzerland (6), Tunisia (1), Turkey (8)

Total: 156 collections including 225 occurrences

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