Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Tibetitidae
Alternative combination: Tibetites (Paratibetites) adolphi
Synonym: Paratibetites indicus Jeannet 1959
Full reference: E. von Mojsisovics. 1896. Upper Triassic Cephalopoda faunae of the Himalaya. Palaeontologia Indica 10(3):1-264
Belongs to Paratibetites according to L. Krystyn 1982
See also Liang 1977, Tatzreiter 1981 and von Mojsisovics 1896
Sister taxa: Paratibetites angustosellatus, Paratibetites bertrandi, Paratibetites clarkei, Paratibetites geikiei, Paratibetites yunnanensis, Tibetites (Paratibetites) tornquisti
Type specimens:
- Paratibetites adolphi: Its type locality is Bambanag, Halorites Beds, which is in a Norian carbonate limestone in India
- Paratibetites indicus:
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Triassic of China (1 collection), India (1), Indonesia (1), Nepal (2)
Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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