Cephalopoda - Nautilida - Grypoceratidae
Full reference: B. Kummel. 1953. Lower Triassic Salt Range nautiloids. Breviora, Museum of Comparative Zoology 20:1-8
Belongs to Grypoceras according to B. Kummel 1953
Sister taxa: Grypoceras aemulans, Grypoceras brahmanicum, Grypoceras griesbachi, Grypoceras guembeli, Grypoceras haloricum, Grypoceras laubei, Grypoceras mesodicum, Grypoceras milleri, Grypoceras obtusum, Grypoceras palladii, Grypoceras quadrangulum, Grypoceras rhaeticum, Grypoceras whitneyi
Type specimen: BMNH C10428, a shell. Its type locality is Chhidru, Lower Ceratite marl, Salt Range, which is in a Dienerian offshore marl in the Mianwali Formation of Pakistan.
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 55.0
Distribution: found only at Chhidru, Lower Ceratite marl, Salt Range
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