Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Proptychitidae
Synonyms: Aspidites crassus Krafft 1909, Aspitella crassa Krafft 1909, Clypeoceras crassum Krafft 1909, Koninckites alterammonoides Krafft 1909, Koninckites haydeni Krafft 1909, Proptychites alterammonoides Krafft 1909, Proptychites haydeni Krafft 1909
Full reference: W. Waagen. 1895. Fossils from the Ceratite Formation. Salt Range Fossils, Palaeontologia Indica, Series 13 2(1):1-323
Belongs to Proptychites according to D. Ware and H. Bucher 2018
See also Shigeta and Zakharov 2009, Spath 1934, Waagen 1895, Ware and Bucher 2018 and Ware et al. 2011
Sister taxa: Proptychites aberrans, 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
Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 57.7
Distribution:
• Triassic of China (5 collections), India (10), Pakistan (10), the Russian Federation (1), United States (6: Nevada)
Total: 32 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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