Ophiceras Griesbach 1880 (ceratite)

Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Ophiceratidae

Synonyms: Acanthophiceras Diener 1916, Ophiceras (Acanthophiceras) Diener 1916

Full reference: C. L. Griesbach. 1880. Palaeontological notes on the Lower Trias of the Himalayas. Records of the Geological Survey of India 13:94-113

Parent taxon: Ophiceratidae according to X. Dai et al. 2019

See also Kapoor and Bando 1974, Sepkoski 2002, Spath 1934, Spath 1935, Tongtherm et al. 2016, Tozer 1981, Tozer 1994, Ware and Bucher 2018 and Zhang et al. 2017

Sister taxa: Discophiceras, Ghazalaites, Kyoktites, Lytophiceras, Protophiceras, Shangganites, Vishnuites, Wordieoceras

Subtaxa: Ophiceras (Acanthophiceras) poulseni Ophiceras (Acanthophiceras) subgibbosum Ophiceras bilotense Ophiceras commune Ophiceras connectens Ophiceras crassecostatum Ophiceras dharma Ophiceras gibbosum Ophiceras greenlandicum Ophiceras medium Ophiceras stricturatum Ophiceras subsakuntala Ophiceras tibeticum Ophiceras transitorium

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Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

• Triassic of Armenia (2 collections), Azerbaijan (5), Canada (8: Nunavut), China (87), Greenland (96), India (22), Indonesia (4), Iran (2), Japan (1), Myanmar (1), Oman (13), Pakistan (15), the Russian Federation (6), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (5), Thailand (2), United States (3: Alaska, California, Nevada), Vietnam (1)

• Permian of Pakistan (2)

Total: 275 collections including 357 occurrences

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