Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Perisphinctidae
Alternative combination: Perisphinctes indogermanus
Synonyms: Dichotomosphinctes (Otosphinctes) rota Waagen 1875, Perisphinctes (Arisphinctes) rota Waagen 1875, Perisphinctes obliplicatus Waagen 1875, Perisphinctes rota Waagen 1875
Full reference: W. Waagen. 1875. Jurassic fauna of Kutch, the Cephalopoda. Palaeontologia Indica, Series 9. Memoir 1(2-4):23-247
Belongs to Perisphinctes (Perisphinctes) according to D.K. Pandey et al. 2012
See also Collignon 1959 and Roy et al. 2012
Sister taxa: Perisphinctes (Perisphinctes) martelli, Perisphinctes (Perisphinctes) panthieri, Perisphinctes (Perisphinctes) siegfriedi, Perisphinctes (Perisphinctes) waltonensis
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Jurassic of Chile (1 collection), India (1), Madagascar (2)
Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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