Platynoticeras alter Oppel 1862 (ammonite)

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Polymorphitidae

Alternative combinations: Ammonites alter, Liparoceras (Parinodiceras) alterum

Full reference: A. Oppel. 1862. III: Ueber jurassische Cephalopoden. Palaeontologische Mittheilungen aus dem Museum des Koeniglichen Bayerischen Staates 1:127-262

Belongs to Platynoticeras according to L.F. Spath 1938

See also Oppel 1862 and Schlegelmilch 1976

Sister taxon: Parinodiceras parinodus

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Platynoticeras alter in the database

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