Prohungarites landuensis Guex 1978 (ceratite)

Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Longobarditidae

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

Belongs to Prohungarites according to J. Guex 1978

Sister taxa: Prohungarites beyrichitoides, Prohungarites carinatus, Prohungarites crasseplicatus, Prohungarites gutstadti, Prohungarites lenticularis, Prohungarites mckelvei, Prohungarites middlemissii, Prohungarites qinghaiensis, Prohungarites submckelvei, Prohungarites submiddlemissi, Prohungarites tuberculatus

Type specimen: Mus. Hist. Nat. Geneva G-P 52, a shell. Its type locality is Landu, Bed 21, Surghar Range, which is in a Spathian marine limestone in the Topmost Limestones Formation of Pakistan.

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 28.6

Distribution: found only at Landu, Bed 21, Surghar Range

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