Galfettites Brayard and Bucher 2008 (ammonite)

Cephalopoda - Phylloceratida - Galfettitidae

Full reference: A. Brayard and H. Bucher. 2008. Smithian (Early Triassic) ammonoid faunas from northwestern Guangxi (South China): taxonomy and biochronology. Fossils and Strata 55:1-179

Parent taxon: Galfettitidae according to M. Đaković et al. 2022

See also Brayard and Bucher 2008, Brühwiler and Bucher 2012, Jenks et al. 2010, Shigeta and Nguyen 2014 and Smyshlyaeva and Zakharov 2021

Sister taxa: Lepiskites, Pseudogalfettites, Safraites, Shigetaceras, Urdyceras, Vercherites

Subtaxa: Galfettites kyrae Galfettites lucasi Galfettites omani Galfettites orientalis Galfettites simplicitatis Galfettites wanneri

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Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

• Triassic of China (10 collections), India (5), Indonesia (4), Oman (9), Pakistan (1), the Russian Federation (1), Serbia and Montenegro (1), United States (1: Nevada), Vietnam (2)

Total: 34 collections including 35 occurrences

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