Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Proptychitidae
Synonym: Aspitella Waterhouse 1996
Full reference: W. Waagen. 1895. Fossils from the Ceratite Formation. Salt Range Fossils, Palaeontologia Indica, Series 13 2(1):1-323
Parent taxon: Proptychitidae according to X. Dai et al. 2019
See also Diener 1897, Sepkoski 2002, Spath 1934, Tozer 1994, Ware and Bucher 2018, Ware and Bucher 2018 and Zhang et al. 2017
Sister taxa: Arctomeekoceras, Bukkenites, Clypeoceras, Clypeoceratoides, Dunedinites, Eoptychites, Evenites, Guodunites, Gyrophiceras hubeiense, Gyrophiceras orientale, Heibergites, Hubeitoceras, Jieshaniceras, Koninckitoides, Koninickites, Kummelia, Leyeceras, Monneticeras, Nanningites, Pachyproptychites, Paraspidites, Pleurogyronites, Prionolobus, Proptychitinae, Proptychitoides, Pseudaspidites, Pseudoproptychites, Roopnarinites, Tompoproptychites, Tulongites, Ussuriceras, Wailiceras, Xiaoqiaoceras
Subtaxa: Proptychites aberrans Proptychites ammonoides Proptychites anomalus Proptychites candidus Proptychites discoides Proptychites grandis Proptychites intermedius Proptychites kummeli Proptychites latifimbriatus Proptychites lawrencianus Proptychites magnumbilicatus Proptychites markhami Proptychites mulleri Proptychites newelli Proptychites oldhamianus Proptychites pagei Proptychites plicatus Proptychites rosenkrantzi Proptychites scheibleri Proptychites simplex Proptychites subdiscoides Proptychites subgrandis Proptychites trilobatus Proptychites wargalensis
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Triassic of Canada (17: British Columbia, Nunavut collections), China (20), Greenland (25), India (29), Indonesia (1), Nepal (1), Oman (4), Pakistan (31), the Russian Federation (4), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), United States (7: Alaska, Nevada)
Total: 140 collections including 161 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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