Sturia sansovinii Mojsisovics 1869 (ceratite)

Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Sturiidae

Alternative combination: Amaltheus sansovinii

Belongs to Sturia according to D. Germani 1997

See also Arthaber 1896, Diener 1907, Fantini Sestini 1988, Fantini Sestini 1994, Shevyrev 1995, Spath 1951, Tozer 1994, von Mojsisovics 1882 and Wang and Chen 1979

Sister taxa: Sturia forojuliensis, Sturia japonica, Sturia karpinskyi, Sturia semiarata, Sturia yalakensis

Type specimen: Its type locality is Schreyeralm (Geol Reichsanstalt coll), which is in an Illyrian carbonate limestone in the Schreyeralm Formation of Austria

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 62.0

Distribution:

• Triassic of Afghanistan (1 collection), Albania (1), Austria (2), Bosnia and Herzegovina (10), Canada (3: British Columbia), China (1), Greece (1), Hungary (1), India (2), Indonesia (1), Iran (1), Italy (3), Malaysia (1), the Russian Federation (5), Turkey (7)

Total: 40 collections each including a single occurrence

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