Gyronites plicosus Waagen 1895 (ceratite)

Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Gyronitidae

Alternative combination: Hypophiceras plicosum

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 Waagen 1895, Ware and Bucher 2018 and Ware and Bucher 2018

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

Type specimen: Its type locality is West of Khoora, lowest beds of Lower Ceratite Limestone, Salt Range, which is in a Dienerian carbonate limestone in the Lower Ceratite Limestone Formation of Pakistan

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 39.1

Distribution:

• Triassic of China (5 collections), India (7), Pakistan (8)

Total: 20 collections each including a single occurrence

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