Cephalopoda - Nautilida - Tainoceratidae
Alternative combination: Nautilus salinarius
Synonym: Nautilus gorasdzensis Assmann 1937
Full reference: E. von Mojsisovics. 1882. Die Cephalopoden der Mediterranen Triasprovinz. Abhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Geologischen Reichsanstalt 10:1-322
Belongs to Germanonautilus according to A. Vörös et al. 2022
See also Diener 1907, Niedźwiedzki et al. 2021, Parnes 1986, von Mojsisovics 1882 and Vörös 2001
Sister taxa: Ammonites acis, Cyrtocera linearis, Germanonautilus anceps, Germanonautilus bartovi, Germanonautilus bidorsatus, Germanonautilus breunneri, Germanonautilus brooksi, Germanonautilus bytschkovi, Germanonautilus cassianus, Germanonautilus dolomiticus, Germanonautilus ellipticus, Germanonautilus furlongi, Germanonautilus johnstoni, Germanonautilus klipsteini, Germanonautilus kyotanii, Germanonautilus popowi, Germanonautilus schloenbachi, Germanonautilus sibiricus, Germanonautilus tridorsatus, Nautilus tertius
Type specimens:
- Germanonautilus salinarius: Its type locality is Schreyeralm (Geol Reichsanstalt coll), which is in an Illyrian carbonate limestone in the Schreyeralm Formation of Austria
- Nautilus gorasdzensis:
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 65.7
Distribution:
• Triassic of Austria (2 collections), Hungary (4), India (1), Israel (1), Poland (1)
Total: 9 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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