Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Perisphinctidae
Alternative spelling: Perisphinctes (Choffatia)
Synonyms: Anaplanulites Buckman 1922, Choffatia (Loboplanulites) Buckman 1925, Grossouvria Siemiradzki 1898, Loboplanulites Buckman 1925, Perisphinctes (Grossouvria) Siemiradzki 1898
Full reference: J. Siemiradzki. 1898. Monographische Beschreibung der Ammonitengattung Perisphinctes. Palaeontographica 45:69-296, 5 Pls
Parent taxon: Pseudoperisphinctinae according to T. P. Poulton and R. L. Hall 2019
See also Besnosov and Mitta 1993, Imlay 1953, Parent 2006, Sepkoski 2002, Siemiradzki 1898 and ZatoĊ 2010
Sister taxa: Berbericeras, Binatisphinctes, Flabellisphinctes, Homoeoplanulites, Indosphinctes, Klematosphinctes, Poculisphinctes, Prososphinctoides, Pseudopeltoceras, Pseudoperisphinctes
Subtaxa: Anaplanulites hyatti Choffatia (Choffatia) Choffatia acuticosta Choffatia arisphinctoides Choffatia baluchistanensis Choffatia cerealis Choffatia furcula Choffatia jupiter Choffatia neumayri Choffatia perdagata Choffatia poculum Choffatia schilleri Choffatia subbackeriae Choffatia suborion Grossouvria colfaxi Grossouvria crassa Grossouvria delbosi Grossouvria evexa Grossouvria kontkiewiczi Grossouvria sulciferus Loboplanulites cerealiformis Loboplanulites choffatiaformis Loboplanulites prosorovskii Loboplanulites subkranaiformis Loboplanulites zakharovi
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Jurassic of Argentina (15 collections), Canada (5: British Columbia), Chile (6), China (1), France (24), Germany (11), Honduras (1), India (5), Iran (1), Madagascar (35), Poland (8), Saudi Arabia (2), Spain (1), Turkmenistan (1), United States (2: Alaska, California), Uzbekistan (4)
Total: 122 collections including 188 occurrences
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