Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Tropitidae

Full reference: J. P. Smith. 1927. Upper Triassic marine invertebrate faunas of North America. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 141:1-262

Belongs to Paratropites (Gymnotropites) according to J. P. Smith 1927

Sister taxa: Gymnotropites americanus, Paratropites (Gymnotropites) californicus, Paratropites (Gymnotropites) laevis

Type specimen: Its type locality is Brock Mountain, 3 miles east of Madison's ranch (Trachyceras subzone), which is in a Tuvalian carbonate limestone in the Hosselkus Formation of California

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Brock Mountain, 3 miles east of Madison's ranch (Trachyceras subzone)

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