Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Echioceratidae
Alternative combinations: Ammonites tardecrescens, Plesechioceras delicatum
Synonyms: Caloceras aplanatum Hyatt 1889, Euechioceras insigne Trueman and Williams 1925, Plesechioceras typus Buckman 1927
Belongs to Paltechioceras according to I. Vitón et al. 2024
See also Blau 1998, Blau et al. 2000, Edmunds et al. 2003, Meister and Friebe 2003 and Rakús and Guex 2002
Sister taxa: Paltechioceras anomalum, Paltechioceras aureolum, Paltechioceras boehmi, Paltechioceras burckhardti, Paltechioceras charpentieri, Paltechioceras elicitum, Paltechioceras favrei, Paltechioceras flexicostatum, Paltechioceras hierlatzicum, Paltechioceras liciense, Paltechioceras meisteri, Paltechioceras mexicanum, Paltechioceras nobile, Paltechioceras oosteri, Paltechioceras ophioides, Paltechioceras recticostatum, Paltechioceras romanicum, Paltechioceras rothpletzi, Euechioceras exoletum
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 36.0
Distribution:
• Jurassic of Austria (9 collections), France (3), Germany (1), Hungary (3), Mexico (5), Morocco (13), Portugal (20), Slovakia (1), Spain (8), Tunisia (2), the United Kingdom (2)
Total: 67 collections including 74 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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