Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Ptychitidae
Alternative combination: Ptychites oppulentus
Full reference: E. von Mojsisovics. 1882. Die Cephalopoden der Mediterranen Triasprovinz. Abhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Geologischen Reichsanstalt 10:1-322
Belongs to Ptychites according to N. Fantini Sestini 1988
See also Arthaber 1896, Arthaber 1896, Arthaber 1915, Gu et al. 1980, Kotański 1973 and von Mojsisovics 1882
Sister taxa: Ptychites besnosovi, Ptychites breunigi, Ptychites cognatus, Ptychites cultrata, Ptychites cylindroides, Ptychites densistriatus, Ptychites domatus, Ptychites dontianus, Ptychites durandii, Ptychites embreei, Ptychites eusomus, Ptychites evansi, Ptychites everesti, Ptychites evolvens, Ptychites gibbus, Ptychites globus, Ptychites gradinarui, Ptychites guloensis, Ptychites hamatus, Ptychites intermedius, Ptychites mahendra, Ptychites maximus, Ptychites miyagiensis, Ptychites nipponicus, Ptychites noricus, Ptychites oppeli, Ptychites posthumus, Ptychites progressus, Ptychites pseudoeuglyphus, Ptychites rectangulatus, Ptychites reductus, Ptychites rugifer, Ptychites sahadeva, Ptychites stachei, Ptychites stoliczkai, Ptychites sumitra, Ptychites tibetanus, Ptychites trochleaeformis, Ptychites uhligi, Ptychites vidura, Ptychites wrighti
Type specimen: Its type locality is Schreyeralm (Geol Reichsanstalt coll), which is in an Illyrian carbonate limestone in the Schreyeralm Formation of Austria
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 28.5
Distribution:
• Triassic of Austria (5 collections), Bosnia and Herzegovina (2), China (1), Greece (3), Italy (2), Poland (1), Turkey (4)
Total: 18 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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