Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Proptychitidae
Full reference: L. F. Spath. 1934. Catalogue of Fossil Cephalopoda in the British Museum (Natural History), Part IV, The Ammonoidea of the Trias. 1-521
Parent taxon: Proptychitidae according to Y. Shigeta and H. D. Nguyen 2014
See also Brühwiler and Bucher 2012, Kummel 1969, Kummel and Steele 1962, Sepkoski 2002 and Spath 1934
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, Proptychites, Proptychitinae, Proptychitoides, Pseudoproptychites, Roopnarinites, Tompoproptychites, Tulongites, Ussuriceras, Wailiceras, Xiaoqiaoceras
Subtaxa: Pseudaspidites muthianus Pseudaspidites planus Pseudaspidites popovi Pseudaspidites silberlingi Pseudaspidites wheeleri Pseudaspidites yudishthira
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Triassic of China (34 collections), India (5), Oman (12), Pakistan (1), the Russian Federation (3), United States (8: Idaho, Nevada), Vietnam (5)
Total: 68 collections including 81 occurrences
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