Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Gyronitidae
Alternative combinations: Lilangia lilangensis, Meekoceras lilangense, Prionolobus lilangense, Prionolobus lilangensis
Synonyms: Ambites fuliginatus Tozer 1994, Ambitoides fuliginatus Tozer 1994, Meekoceras lingtiense von Krafft 1909
Belongs to Ambites according to X. Dai et al. 2023
See also Gibson 1971, Shigeta and Zakharov 2009, Spath 1934, Tozer 1994, Ware and Bucher 2018, Ware and Bucher 2018 and Ware et al. 2011
Sister taxa: Ambites atavus, Ambites bjerageri, Ambites bojeseni, Ambites discus, Ambites ferruginus, Ambites frechi, Ambites impressa, Ambites nyingmai, Ambites radiatus, Ambites rupestris, Ambites subradiatus, Ambites superior, Ambites tenuis, Ambites wissneri
Type specimens:
- Ambites lilangensis: Its type locality is 1mi N of Lilang, which is in a Dienerian marine horizon in India
- Ambites fuliginatus: GSC 28123. Its type locality is GSC 88732, Tuchodi River, which is in a Dienerian marine siliciclastic in the Grayling Formation of Canada.
- Meekoceras lingtiense:
Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 39.1
Distribution:
• Triassic of Canada (10: British Columbia collections), China (2), India (7), Pakistan (1), the Russian Federation (2), United States (6: Nevada)
Total: 28 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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