Didymites sphaeroides von Mojsisovics 1875 (ceratite)

Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Didymitidae

Full reference: E. von Mojsisovics. 1875. 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):83-174

Belongs to Didymites according to E. von Mojsisovics 1902

See also von Mojsisovics 1875

Sister taxa: Didymites afghanicus, Didymites angustilobatus, Didymites globus, Didymites quenstedti, Didymites subglobus, Didymites tectus

Type specimen: Its type locality is Someraukogel, beds with Trachyceras bicrenatum, which is in an Alaunian carbonate limestone in the Halstatt Formation of Austria

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Someraukogel, beds with Trachyceras bicrenatum

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