Tropaeum antarcticum Wilckens 1947 (ammonite)

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Ancyloceratidae

Full reference: O. Wilckens. 1947. Paläontologische und geologische Ergebnisse der Reise von Kohl-Larsen (1928-29) nach Süd-Georgien. Abhandlungen der Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung 474:1-75

Belongs to Tropaeum according to O. Wilckens 1947

Sister taxa: Tropaeum (Tropaeum), Tropaeum arcticum, Tropaeum australe, Tropaeum caseyi, Tropaeum hillsi, Tropaeum imperator, Tropaeum leptum, Tropaeum percostatum, Tropaeum rarum, Tropaeum subsimbirskense, Tropaeum undatum

Type specimen: Senckenberg Museum 404. Its type locality is NE coast, Annenkov Island, which is in a Hauterivian/Aptian coastal sandstone in the Annenkov Island Formation of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at NE coast, Annenkov Island

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