Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Ptychitidae
Full reference: A. A. Shevyrev. 1995. Triassic ammonoids of the northwest Caucasus. Rossiyskaya Akademiya Nauk, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 264:1-174
Belongs to Ptychites according to A. A. Shevyrev 1995
Sister taxa: Ptychites breunigi, Ptychites cognatus, Ptychites cultrata, Ptychites cylindroides, Ptychites densistriatus, Ptychites domatus, Ptychites dontianus, Ptychites durandii, Ptychites embreei, Ptychites eusomus, Ptychites evansi, Ptychites everesti, Ptychites evolvens, Ptychites gibbus, Ptychites globus, Ptychites gradinarui, Ptychites guloensis, Ptychites hamatus, Ptychites intermedius, Ptychites mahendra, Ptychites maximus, Ptychites miyagiensis, Ptychites nipponicus, Ptychites noricus, Ptychites oppeli, Ptychites opulentus, Ptychites posthumus, Ptychites progressus, Ptychites pseudoeuglyphus, Ptychites rectangulatus, Ptychites reductus, Ptychites rugifer, Ptychites sahadeva, Ptychites stachei, Ptychites stoliczkai, Ptychites sumitra, Ptychites tibetanus, Ptychites trochleaeformis, Ptychites uhligi, Ptychites vidura, Ptychites wrighti
Type specimen: PIN 1477/618. Its type locality is Bugunzha River, Ptychites-Flexoptychites beds (Beznosov coll), which is in a Pelsonian marine carbonate in the Acheshbok Formation of the Russian Federation.
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 46.0
Distribution: found only at Bugunzha River, Ptychites-Flexoptychites beds (Beznosov coll)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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