Aspidoceras subdistractum Waagen 1875 (ammonite)

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Aspidoceratidae

Full reference: W. Waagen. 1875. Jurassic fauna of Kutch, the Cephalopoda. Palaeontologia Indica, Series 9. Memoir 1(2-4):23-247

Belongs to Aspidoceras according to W. Waagen 1875

Sister taxa: Aspidoceras acanthicum, Aspidoceras alamitocense, Aspidoceras andinum, Aspidoceras apenninicum, Aspidoceras atavum, Aspidoceras binodiferum, Aspidoceras binodum, Aspidoceras caletanum, Aspidoceras catalaunicum, Aspidoceras euomphalum, Aspidoceras haupti, Aspidoceras haynaldi, Aspidoceras iphiceroides, Aspidoceras iphicerum, Aspidoceras irregulare, Aspidoceras longispinum, Aspidoceras monacanthum, Aspidoceras ponderosum, Aspidoceras rafaeli, Aspidoceras raspailii, Aspidoceras rogoznicense, Aspidoceras sesquinodosum, Aspidoceras somalicum, Aspidoceras sparsispinum, Aspidoceras supraspinosum, Aspidoceras taverai, Aspidoceras tenuispinatum, Aspidoceras wynnei

Type specimen: Its type locality is 1km N of Gangta Fort, Gangta Bet, which is in an Oxfordian/Kimmeridgian marine horizon in the Khadir Formation of India

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at 1km N of Gangta Fort, Gangta Bet

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