Garantiana garantiana d'Orbigny 1846 (ammonite)

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Stephanoceratidae

Alternative combination: Ammonites garantianus

Full reference: A. d'Orbigny. 1846. Paléontologie Française - Description zoologique et géologique de tous les animaux mollusques et rayonnés fossiles de France - Terrains jurassiques. [Céphalopodes]. 1(Lvr 34-40):369-432

Belongs to Garantiana according to R. Enay et al. 1994

See also Besnosov and Mitta 1993

Sister taxa: Garantiana (Garantiana), Garantiana (Hlawiceras), Garantiana (Orthogarantiana), Garantiana (Pseudogarantiana), Garantiana alticosta, Garantiana asarjani, Garantiana baculata, Garantiana bentzi, Garantiana coronata, Garantiana depressa, Garantiana pompeckji, Garantiana praegarantiana, Garantiana quenstedti, Garantiana subgaranti, Garantiana tetragona, Praeparkinsonia tschaloica, Praeparkinsonia subbaculata, Odontolkites longidoides

Type specimen: MNHN F R.02647

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Quarry Winnberg, Sengenthal, Bed 6, Franconian Alb, Bavaria (Jurassic of Germany)

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