†Protoplatytes Cockerell 1905 (ceratite)
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Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Gymnitidae
Synonym: Platytes von Mojsisovics 1902 [replaced name]
Full reference: T. D. A. Cockerell. 1905. Names of ammonites. Journal of Malacology 12:16
Parent taxon: Gymnitidae according to E. T. Tozer 1981
See also Cockerell 1905, Sepkoski 2002 and Spath 1951
Sister taxa: Constrigymnites, Costigymnites, Eogymnites, Epigymnites, Gymnites, Gymnitinae, Japonitinae, Kiparisovia, Parapinacoceras, Paraplacites, Phyllytoceras, Placitinae, Tropigymnites, Xiphogymnites
Subtaxa: Protoplatytes neglectus
Type: Pinacoceras neglectum
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution: found only at Zlambach (Grossen Zlambachgraben) (Triassic of Austria)
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