Proptychites subgrandis Guex 1978 (ceratite)

Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Proptychitidae

Full reference: J. Guex. 1978. Le Trias inférieur des Salt Ranges (Pakistan): problèmes biochronologiques. Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae 71(1):105-141

Belongs to Proptychites according to D. Ware and H. Bucher 2018

See also Guex 1978

Sister taxa: Proptychites aberrans, Proptychites ammonoides, Proptychites anomalus, Proptychites candidus, Proptychites discoides, Proptychites grandis, Proptychites intermedius, Proptychites kummeli, Proptychites latifimbriatus, Proptychites lawrencianus, Proptychites magnumbilicatus, Proptychites markhami, Proptychites mulleri, Proptychites newelli, Proptychites oldhamianus, Proptychites pagei, Proptychites plicatus, Proptychites rosenkrantzi, Proptychites scheibleri, Proptychites simplex, Proptychites subdiscoides, Proptychites trilobatus, Proptychites wargalensis

Type specimen: Mus. Hist. Nat. Geneva G-P 10, a shell. Its type locality is Nammal Gorge, Bed 6b, Salt Range, which is in a Dienerian marine sandstone in the Lower Ceratite Limestone Formation of Pakistan.

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Nammal Gorge, Bed 6b, Salt Range

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