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 F. Tatzreiter and I. Zorn 2013
See also von Mojsisovics 1873 and von Mojsisovics 1902
Sister taxa: Pinacoceras (Pompeckjites), Pinacoceras dalpiazi, Pinacoceras daonicum, Pinacoceras hutteri, Pinacoceras imperator, Pinacoceras loomisii, Pinacoceras metternichi, Pinacoceras parma, Pinacoceras philopater, Pinacoceras rajah, Pinacoceras respondens, Pinacoceras rex, Pinacoceras solum, Pinacoceras trochoides, Pinacoceras verchojanicum
Type specimen: GBA 1873/005/0084, a shell. Its type locality is Röthelstein, lower layer with Arcestes ellipticus, which is in a Julian carbonate limestone/limestone in the Halstatt Formation of Austria.
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 153.0
Distribution: found only at Röthelstein, lower layer with Arcestes ellipticus
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