Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Japonitidae

Full reference: N. Fantini Sestini. 1981. Lower Anisian (Aegean) ammonites from Chios Island (Greece). Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 87:41-66

Belongs to Japonites according to N. Fantini Sestini 1981

Sister taxa: Japonites dieneri, Japonites kirata, Japonites kueichowensis, Japonites labaensis, Japonites meridianus, Japonites planiplicatus, Japonites readi, Japonites starensis, Japonites surgriva, Japonites welteri, Japonites wrighti, Japonites ziyunensis

Type specimen: Mgb764. Its type locality is Section CM II, 11 m, Marathovouno Hill, Chios, which is in an Aegean basinal (carbonate) lime mudstone in Greece.

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 106.0

Distribution: found only at Section CM II, 11 m, Marathovouno Hill, Chios

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