Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Proptychitidae
Synonym: Paranorites elegans Xu 1988
Full reference: E. T. Tozer. 1961. Triassic stratigraphy and faunas, Queen Elizabeth Islands, Arctic Archipelago. Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 316:1-116
Belongs to Proptychites according to D. Ware and H. Bucher 2018
See also Brühwiler et al. 2008, Tozer 1994, Xu 1988 and Zakharov and Mu 2007
Sister taxa: Proptychites aberrans, Proptychites ammonoides, Proptychites anomalus, Proptychites discoides, Proptychites grandis, Proptychites intermedius, Proptychites kummeli, Proptychites latifimbriatus, Proptychites lawrencianus, Proptychites magnumbilicatus, Proptychites markhami, Proptychites mulleri, Proptychites newelli, Proptychites oldhamianus, Proptychites pagei, Proptychites plicatus, Proptychites rosenkrantzi, Proptychites scheibleri, Proptychites simplex, Proptychites subdiscoides, Proptychites subgrandis, Proptychites trilobatus, Proptychites wargalensis
Type specimens:
- Proptychites candidus: GSC 14044. Its type locality is GSC 37218, Borden Island, which is in a Tuvalian marine siliciclastic in the Schei Point Formation of Canada.
- Paranorites elegans: Yichang Inst Geol Min Res IV50598. Its type locality is Xiaohe Xh-80-C-2, Lichuan, which is in a Dienerian carbonate lime mudstone in the Ruiping Formation of China.
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 82.1
Distribution:
• Triassic of Canada (16: British Columbia, Nunavut collections), China (3), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1)
Total: 20 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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