Grypoceras laubei von Mojsisovics 1873

Cephalopoda - Nautilida - Grypoceratidae

Alternative combination: Nautilus laubei

Full reference: E. von Mojsisovics. 1873. Das Gebirge um Hallstatt. Eine geologisch-paläontologische Studie aus den Alpen. 1 Teil, Die Mollusken-Faunen der Zlambach- und Hallstätter-Schichten. Abhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Geologischen Reichsanstalt 6(1):1-82

Belongs to Grypoceras according to F. Tatzreiter and I. Zorn 2013

See also Schastlivtseva 1988, von Mojsisovics 1873 and von Mojsisovics 1902

Sister taxa: Grypoceras aemulans, Grypoceras bidorsatoides, Grypoceras brahmanicum, Grypoceras griesbachi, Grypoceras guembeli, Grypoceras haloricum, Grypoceras mesodicum, Grypoceras milleri, Grypoceras obtusum, Grypoceras palladii, Grypoceras quadrangulum, Grypoceras rhaeticum, Grypoceras whitneyi

Type specimen: GBA 1873/005/0019, a shell. Its type locality is Röthelstein, upper layer with Trachyceras austriacum, which is in a Julian carbonate limestone in the Halstatt Formation of Austria.

Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 29.5

Distribution: found only at Röthelstein, upper layer with Trachyceras austriacum

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