Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Xenoceltitidae

Alternative combination: Gyronites rotula

Full reference: W. Waagen. 1895. Fossils from the Ceratite Formation. Salt Range Fossils, Palaeontologia Indica, Series 13 2(1):1-323

Belongs to Xenoceltites according to L. F. Spath 1934

See also Dagis and Ermakova 1990, Waagen 1895 and Welter 1922

Sister taxa: Xenoceltites cordilleranus, Xenoceltites crenoventrosus, Xenoceltites crenulatus, Xenoceltites evolutus, Xenoceltites matheri, Xenoceltites opimus, Xenoceltites pauciradiatus, Xenoceltites praematurus, Xenoceltites russkiensis, Xenoceltites spencei, Xenoceltites subevolutus, Xenoceltites subvariocostatus, Xenoceltites variocostatus, Xenoceltites youngi, Xenoceltites ziyunensis

Type specimen: Its type locality is Chitta-Wan near Ghari, lower Ceratite Sandstone, Salt Range, which is in a Smithian carbonate sandstone in the Ceratite Sandstone Formation of Pakistan

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 25.9

Distribution: found only at Chitta-Wan near Ghari, lower Ceratite Sandstone, Salt Range

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