Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Ataxioceratidae
Synonym: Biplices
Parent taxon: Ataxioceratinae according to H. Parent 2006
See also Arkell et al. 1957, Parent et al. 2012, Schlegelmilch 1994 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Ataxioceras, Lithacosphinctes, Procraspedites, Schneidia, Virgataxioceras
Subtaxa: Orthosphinctes (Orthosphinctes) Orthosphinctes (Pseudorthosphinctes) Orthosphinctes ariniensis Orthosphinctes polygyratus
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Jurassic of Algeria (5 collections), Argentina (1), France (17), Germany (3), Hungary (2), India (1), Iran (8), Italy (3), Madagascar (6), Mexico (4), Romania (4), the Russian Federation (2), Spain (11), Yemen (3)
Total: 70 collections including 122 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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