Pinacoceras trochoides von Mojsisovics 1873 (ceratite)

Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Pinacoceratidae

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 Pinacoceras according to E. von Mojsisovics 1902

See also von Mojsisovics 1873

Sister taxa: Pinacoceras (Pompeckjites), Pinacoceras dalpiazi, Pinacoceras daonicum, Pinacoceras hutteri, Pinacoceras imperator, Pinacoceras loomisii, Pinacoceras metternichi, Pinacoceras parma, Pinacoceras parmaeforme, Pinacoceras philopater, Pinacoceras rajah, Pinacoceras respondens, Pinacoceras rex, Pinacoceras solum, Pinacoceras verchojanicum

Type specimen: Its type locality is Raschberg, beds with Trachyceras aonoides, which is in a Julian carbonate limestone in the Halstatt Formation of Austria

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 325.0

Distribution: found only at Raschberg, beds with Trachyceras aonoides

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