Platypleuroceras brevispina Sowerby 1827 (ammonite)

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Polymorphitidae

Alternative combinations: Aegoceras brevispina, Ammonites brevispina

Synonyms: Ammonites amplinatrix Quenstedt 1885, Platypleuroceras amplinatrix Quenstedt 1885, Platypleuroceras brevispinoides Tutcher and Trueman 1925

Belongs to Platypleuroceras according to D. T. Donovan and F. Surlyk 2003

See also Bremer 1965, Edmunds et al. 2003, Meister 1986 and Meister and Friebe 2003

Sister taxa: Platypleuroceras caprarium, Platypleuroceras oblongum, Platypleuroceras orbis, Platypleuroceras rotundum, Platypleuroceras submuticum, Platypleuroceras tenuilobus, Platypleuroceras valdaniforme

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

• Jurassic of Austria (5 collections), Denmark (1), France (13), Germany (1), Spain (2), the United Kingdom (4)

Total: 26 collections including 30 occurrences

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