Gyronites frequens Waagen 1895 (ceratite)

Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Gyronitidae

Synonyms: Gyronites nangaensis Waagen 1895, Gyronites psilogyrus Waagen 1895, Gyronites spiralis Waterhouse 1996, Lecanites psilogyrus Waagen 1895, Lecanites undatus Waagen 1895, Prionolobus compressus Waagen 1895, Prionolobus plicatilis Waagen 1895, Prionolobus plicatus Waagen 1895, Xenodiscus lilangensis von Krafft 1909

Full reference: W. Waagen. 1895. Fossils from the Ceratite Formation. Salt Range Fossils, Palaeontologia Indica, Series 13 2(1):1-323

Belongs to Gyronites according to X. Dai et al. 2023

See also Brühwiler et al. 2008, Spath 1934, Tozer 1962, Waagen 1895, Ware and Bucher 2018 and Ware and Bucher 2018

Sister taxa: Gyronites arenosus, Gyronites bullatus, Gyronites dubius, Gyronites levilatus, Gyronites plicosus, Gyronites radians, Gyronites recentis, Gyronites rigidus, Gyronites schwanderi, Gyronites sitala, Gyronites subdharmus

Type specimens:

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 45.9

Distribution:

• Triassic of China (1 collection), India (5), Pakistan (15)

Total: 21 collections including 23 occurrences

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