Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Protetragonitidae
Alternative spelling: Lytoceras (Protetragonites)
Synonyms: Hemitetragonites Spath 1927, Leptotetragonites Spath 1927
Full reference: A. Hyatt. 1900. Cephalopoda. Textbook of Palaeontology 1:502-604
Parent taxon: Protetragonitidae according to K. Tongtherm et al. 2016
See also Arkadiev et al. 2000, Förster 1975, Grigore 2013, Hoffmann 2010, Lukeneder 2004, Maisch and Salfinger-Maisch 2016, Murphy 1967, Sepkoski 2002, Wiedmann 1979 and Wright et al. 1996
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Hemitetragonites aeolus Hemitetragonites strangulatus Leptotetragonites honnoratianus Protetragonites crebrisulcatus Protetragonites quadrisulcatus Protetragonites tauricus Protetragonites zuegeli
Type: Ammonites quadrisulcatus
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Austria (8 collections), Azerbaijan (1), Canada (3: British Columbia), the Czech Republic (2), the Dominican Republic (1), France (15), Georgia (1), Hungary (6), Italy (4), Madagascar (3), Morocco (1), Mozambique (1), Poland (4), Serbia and Montenegro (12), Spain (28), Ukraine (6), Western Sahara (1)
• Jurassic of Germany (1), Hungary (1), Italy (5)
• Triassic of Thailand (1)
Total: 105 collections including 116 occurrences
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