Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Dactylioceratidae
Full reference: J. Guex. 1972. Réparation biostratigraphique des ammonites du Toarcien moyen de la bordure sud des Causses (France) et révision des ammonites décrites et figurées par Monestier (1931). Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae 65:611-645
Belongs to Porpoceras according to J. Guex 1972
Sister taxa: Porpoceras andraei, Porpoceras crassicostatum, Porpoceras pseudodesplacei, Porpoceras tenellissimum, Porpoceras vortex, Porpoceras vorticellum, Telodactylites renzi, Telodactylites eucosmus
Type specimen: Musée d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève G77, a shell. Its type locality is Le Clapier, bed 21, which is in a Bifrons carbonate marl in France.
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 20.8
Distribution:
• Jurassic of France (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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