Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Ataxioceratidae
Alternative spelling: Katrolites
Full reference: L.F. Spath. 1928. On the Blake collection of ammonites from Kachh, India. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India: Palaeontologica Indica 9:1-29
Parent taxon: Ataxioceratidae according to M. R. A. Thomson 1983
See also Helmstaedt 1969 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Ataxioceratinae, Discosphinctoides, Garnierisphinctes, Lithacoceratinae, Paraboliceratinae, Paraulacosphinctinae, Sublithacoceratinae, Torquatisphinctinae, Zapaliinae
Subtaxa: Katroliceras formosum Katroliceras pottingeri Katroliceras waageni
Type: Katroliceras pottingeri
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Jurassic of China (2 collections), Germany (1), India (1), Madagascar (5), Nepal (1), Somalia (1), Yemen (1)
Total: 12 collections including 24 occurrences
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