Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Gyronitidae
Alternative spelling: Meekoceras (Gyronites)
Full reference: W. Waagen. 1895. Fossils from the Ceratite Formation. Salt Range Fossils, Palaeontologia Indica, Series 13 2(1):1-323
Parent taxon: Gyronitidae according to D. Ware and H. Bucher 2018
See also Brühwiler et al. 2008, Hyatt and Smith 1905, Sepkoski 2002, Smith 1904, Spath 1934, Tozer 1994 and Ware and Bucher 2018
Sister taxa: Abrekites, Ambites, Catalecanites, Gyrophiceras, Kingites, Kymatites, Lingyunites, Meekophiceras, Mudiceras, Parakymatites, Subradioceras
Subtaxa: Gyronites arenosus Gyronites bullatus Gyronites dubius Gyronites frequens Gyronites levilatus Gyronites plicosus Gyronites radians Gyronites recentis Gyronites rigidus Gyronites schwanderi Gyronites sitala Gyronites subdharmus
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Triassic of Armenia (1 collection), Azerbaijan (1), Canada (1: British Columbia), China (17), India (19), Iran (1), Oman (1), Pakistan (36), the Russian Federation (18), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), Vietnam (1)
Total: 97 collections including 123 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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