Paracrochordiceras welteri Tozer 1994 (ceratite)

Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Acrochordiceratidae

Full reference: E. T. Tozer. 1994. Significance of Triassic stage boundaries defined in North America. Mémoires de Géologie Lausanne 22:155-170

Belongs to Paracrochordiceras according to E. T. Tozer 1994

Sister taxa: Paracrochordiceras americanum, Paracrochordiceras anodosum, Paracrochordiceras asseretoi, Paracrochordiceras benderi, Paracrochordiceras denseplicatum, Paracrochordiceras mclearni, Paracrochordiceras pandya, Paracrochordiceras pingtangense, Paracrochordiceras plicatus, Paracrochordiceras qinghaiense, Paracrochordiceras silberlingi, Eoacrochordiceras evolutum, Eoacrochordiceras ziyunense, Preflorianitoides reniformis

Type specimen: Its type locality is Fatoe Nefakoko, near Kampong Soeli, Timor, which is in a Spathian carbonate limestone in Indonesia

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 35.0

Distribution: found only at Fatoe Nefakoko, near Kampong Soeli, Timor

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