Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Proptychitidae
Alternative combination: Proptychites strigatus
Full reference: E. T. Tozer. 1961. Triassic stratigraphy and faunas, Queen Elizabeth Islands, Arctic Archipelago. Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 316:1-116
Belongs to Bukkenites according to E. T. Tozer 1994
See also Tozer 1961
Sister taxa: Bukkenites incisus, Bukkenites macilentus, Bukkenites nanus, Bukkenites nitidus, Bukkenites sakesarensis
Type specimen: GSC 14042. Its type locality is GSC 32373, Arthaber Creek, Axel Heiberg Island, which is in a Griesbachian marine siliciclastic in the Blind Fiord Formation of Canada.
Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 140.5
Distribution:
• Triassic of Canada (13: Nunavut collections), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1)
Total: 14 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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