Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Echioceratidae
Synonyms: Echioceratoides, Epechioceras Trueman and Williams 1925, Euechioceras Trueman and Williams 1925, Kamptechioceras Trueman and Williams 1925, Metechioceras Trueman and Williams 1925, Stenechioceras Buckman 1927, Vobstericeras Trueman and Williams 1925
Parent taxon: Echioceratidae according to M. K. Howarth 2013
See also Blau 1998, Blau et al. 2000, Blau et al. 2008, Bremer 1965, Geczy and Meister 2007, Lukeneder and Lukeneder 2018, Meister and Friebe 2003 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Echioceras, Gagaticeras, Leptechioceras, Orthechioceras, Palaeoechioceras, Plesechioceras
Subtaxa: Euechioceras exoletum Paltechioceras anomalum Paltechioceras aureolum Paltechioceras boehmi Paltechioceras burckhardti Paltechioceras charpentieri Paltechioceras elicitum Paltechioceras favrei Paltechioceras flexicostatum Paltechioceras hierlatzicum Paltechioceras liciense Paltechioceras meisteri Paltechioceras mexicanum Paltechioceras nobile Paltechioceras oosteri Paltechioceras ophioides Paltechioceras recticostatum Paltechioceras romanicum Paltechioceras rothpletzi Paltechioceras studeri
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Jurassic of Austria (40 collections), Canada (16: British Columbia), Chile (2), China (1), Germany (2), Hungary (9), Iran (1), Mexico (11), Morocco (40), Papua New Guinea (1), Slovakia (1), Turkey (7), Ukraine (2), the United Kingdom (5), United States (10: Nevada)
Total: 148 collections including 187 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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