Protoplatytes Cockerell 1905 (ceratite)

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

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Type: Pinacoceras neglectum

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Zlambach (Grossen Zlambachgraben) (Triassic of Austria)

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