Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Perisphinctidae
Alternative combinations: Ammonites chauvinianus, Binatisphinctes chauvinianus
Full reference: A. d'Orbigny. 1847. Paléontologie Française - Description zoologique et géologique de tous les animaux mollusques et rayonnés fossiles de France - Terrains jurassiques. [Céphalopodes]. 1(Lvr 42-45):433-464
Belongs to Pseudopeltoceras according to A. Jeannet 1951
See also Enay and Howarth 2019 and Parent 2006
Sister taxa: Pseudopeltoceras chauvinianum, Pseudopeltoceras leckenbyi, Pseudopeltoceras rollieri, Pseudopeltoceras zuberi
Type specimen: MNHN.F.R02971
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution: found only at Herznach mine, bed C.1 (upper) (Jurassic of Switzerland)
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