Gyronites Waagen 1895 (ceratite)

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

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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

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