Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Proptychitidae
Invalid subtaxa: Aspiditella Strand 1929, Aspidites Waagen 1895 [replaced name], Meekoceras (Aspidites) Waagen 1895 [replaced name]
Full reference: J. P. Smith. 1913. Ammonoidea. Text-Book of Paleontology 1:617-677
Parent taxon: Proptychitidae according to T. Brühwiler and H. Bucher 2012
See also Diener 1897, Sepkoski 2002, Shigeta and Zakharov 2009, Smith 1913, Spath 1934 and Tozer 1981
Sister taxa: Arctomeekoceras, Bukkenites, 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, Pseudaspidites, Pseudoproptychites, Roopnarinites, Tompoproptychites, Tulongites, Ussuriceras, Wailiceras, Xiaoqiaoceras
Subtaxa: Aspidites arenosus Aspidites dentosus Aspidites magnumbilicatus Aspidites meridianus Clypeoceras excentricum Clypeoceras largisellatum Clypeoceras superbum Clypeoceras timorense
Type: Aspidites superbus
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Triassic of Afghanistan (2 collections), China (1), India (2), Indonesia (4), Madagascar (1), Pakistan (7), the Russian Federation (4)
Total: 21 collections including 24 occurrences
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