†subfamily Polymorphitinae Haug 1887 (ammonite)

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Polymorphitidae

Synonyms: Furlitinae Venturi et al. 2007, Parinodiceratidae Edmunds 2009, Parinodiceratinae Edmunds 2009

Full reference: E. Haug. 1887. Über die “Polymorphitidae,” eine neue Ammonitenfamilie aus dem Lias. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie, Stuttgart 1887(2):89-163

Parent taxon: Polymorphitidae according to M. K. Howarth 2013

See also Bremer 1965, Frebold 1970, Smith and Tipper 1996 and Thomson and Smith 1992

Sister taxon: Tropidoceratinae

Subtaxa: Gemmellaroceras Jamesonites Parinodiceras Platypleuroceras Polymorphites Uptonia

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Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

• Jurassic of Argentina (1 collection), Austria (11), Canada (35: British Columbia, Yukon), Chile (7), Denmark (1), France (90), Germany (4), Greenland (16), Hungary (8), Indonesia (1), Italy (4), Mexico (4), Morocco (2), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (2), Slovakia (1), Spain (8), Tunisia (5), Turkey (10), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (26)

Total: 238 collections including 360 occurrences

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