Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Prionitidae
Full reference: W. Waagen. 1895. Fossils from the Ceratite Formation. Salt Range Fossils, Palaeontologia Indica, Series 13 2(1):1-323
Parent taxon: Prionitidae according to R. Jattiot et al. 2020
See also Sepkoski 2002, Spath 1934 and Tozer 1994
Sister taxa: Anasibirites, Anaswasatchites, Arctoprionites, Gurleyites, Hemiprionites, Lucasites, Meekoceras, Punjabites, Radioprionites, Wasatchites
Subtaxa: Prionites arenarius Prionites hollandi Prionites involutus Prionites markevichi Prionites nammalensis Prionites subtuberculatus Prionites trapezoidalis Prionites tuberculatus
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Triassic of Australia (1 collection), Canada (4: British Columbia, Nunavut), China (14), India (3), Indonesia (3), Oman (1), Pakistan (10), the Russian Federation (9), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1)
Total: 46 collections including 54 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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