Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Liparoceratidae
Synonyms: Ammonites acutus Sowerby 1813, Ammonites amaltheus Schlotheim 1813, Ammonites foliaceus Giebel 1852, Ammonites sedgwickii Buckman 1845
Belongs to Amaltheus according to K. Nakada et al. 2021
See also Bardin et al. 2013, Blau and Meister 1991, d'Orbigny 1844, d'Orbigny 1850, Géczy and Meister 1998, Howarth 1955, Howarth 1956, Meister 1986, Meister and Friebe 2003, Owen 1856, Rakús and Guex 2002, Smith and Tipper 1996 and Wittler and Roth 2003
Sister taxa: Amaltheus (Amaltheus), Amaltheus (Pseudoamaltheus), Amaltheus bifurcus, Amaltheus bondonniensis, Amaltheus gibbosus, Amaltheus orientalis, Amaltheus repressus, Amaltheus reticularis, Amaltheus salebrosum, Amaltheus stokesi, Amaltheus striatus, Amaltheus subnodosus, Amaltheus viligaensis
Type specimens:
- Amaltheus margaritatus: BMNH 37039
- Ammonites acutus: BMNH 43979.
- Ammonites amaltheus:
- Ammonites foliaceus:
- Ammonites sedgwickii:
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 28.2
Distribution:
• Jurassic of Austria (4 collections), Canada (5: British Columbia, Yukon), France (20), Germany (1), Hungary (4), Iran (2), Italy (1), Japan (6), the Russian Federation (3), Spain (2), Switzerland (2), the United Kingdom (15)
Total: 65 collections including 68 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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