Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Oppeliidae

Alternative combinations: Ammonites trachinotus, Neumayria trachynotus, Oppelia trachynota

Full reference: A. Oppel. 1863. III: Über jurassische Cephalopoden (continued). Palaeontologische Mittheilungen aus dem Museum des Koeniglich-Bayerischen Staates 163-266

Belongs to Taramelliceras (Taramelliceras) according to R. Schlegelmilch 1994

See also Douville 1879 and Waagen 1875

Sister taxa: Taramelliceras (Taramelliceras) argoviense, Taramelliceras (Taramelliceras) bachianum, Taramelliceras (Taramelliceras) berlieri, Taramelliceras (Taramelliceras) berti, Taramelliceras (Taramelliceras) bonnoti, Taramelliceras (Taramelliceras) boursicoti, Taramelliceras (Taramelliceras) broilii, Taramelliceras (Taramelliceras) callicerum, Taramelliceras (Taramelliceras) colleti, Taramelliceras (Taramelliceras) dentostriatum, Taramelliceras (Taramelliceras) externnodosum, Taramelliceras (Taramelliceras) gessneri, Taramelliceras (Taramelliceras) gmelini, Taramelliceras (Taramelliceras) hauffianum, Taramelliceras (Taramelliceras) intersistens, Taramelliceras (Taramelliceras) kiderleni, Taramelliceras (Taramelliceras) klettgovianum, Taramelliceras (Taramelliceras) marchandi, Taramelliceras (Taramelliceras) maximei, Taramelliceras (Taramelliceras) mouchelini, Taramelliceras (Taramelliceras) obumbrans, Taramelliceras (Taramelliceras) pseudoculatum, Taramelliceras (Taramelliceras) rebouletianum, Taramelliceras (Taramelliceras) rigidum, Taramelliceras (Taramelliceras) sarasini, Taramelliceras (Taramelliceras) sebastiani, Taramelliceras (Taramelliceras) tarkowskii, Taramelliceras (Taramelliceras) tegulatum, Taramelliceras (Taramelliceras) tenuinodosum, Taramelliceras (Taramelliceras) tuberculatum

Type specimen: Its type locality is Birmensdorf, which is in an Oxfordian carbonate limestone/marl in the Birmensdorf Beds Formation of Switzerland

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

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