Monophyllites wengensis Klipstein 1843 (ammonite)

Cephalopoda - Phylloceratida - Ussuritidae

Alternative combinations: Ammonites wengensis, Lytoceras wengense

Synonym: Phylloceras boeckhi Mojsisovics 1870

Full reference: A. Klipstein. 1843. Beschreibung neuer Versteinerungen von St. Cassian und einiger anderer Localitäten, Erster Abschnitt. Mollusken. Beiträge zur Geologischen Kenntniss der Östlichen Alpen 101-207

Belongs to Monophyllites according to N. Fantini Sestini 1996

See also Bando 1964, Fantini Sestini 1994, Klipstein 1843, Ogilvie Gordon 1927, Shevyrev 1995, Spath 1934 and von Mojsisovics 1882

Sister taxa: Monophyllites (Schizophyllites), Monophyllites anatolicus, Monophyllites aonis, Monophyllites bytschkovi, Monophyllites caucasius, Monophyllites kieperti, Monophyllites sphaerophyllus, Monophyllites wetsoni

Type specimens:

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 110.2

Distribution:

• Triassic of Austria (2 collections), Bosnia and Herzegovina (2), Greece (2), Hungary (5), Indonesia (1), Italy (44), Japan (1), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (3)

Total: 61 collections including 62 occurrences

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