Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Gyronitidae
Synonyms: Gyrolecanites Spath 1934, Lilangia Waterhouse 1996, Pleurambites Tozer 1994
Full reference: W. Waagen. 1895. Fossils from the Ceratite Formation. Salt Range Fossils, Palaeontologia Indica, Series 13 2(1):1-323
Parent taxon: Gyronitidae according to X. Dai et al. 2019
See also Brühwiler et al. 2008, Spath 1934, Tozer 1994, Ware et al. 2018, Ware and Bucher 2018, Ware and Bucher 2018, Ware et al. 2011 and Zhang et al. 2017
Sister taxa: Abrekites, Catalecanites, Gyronites, Gyrophiceras, Kingites, Kymatites, Lingyunites, Meekophiceras, Mudiceras, Parakymatites, Subradioceras
Subtaxa: Ambites atavus Ambites bjerageri Ambites bojeseni Ambites discus Ambites ferruginus Ambites frechi Ambites impressa Ambites lilangensis Ambites nyingmai Ambites radiatus Ambites rupestris Ambites subradiatus Ambites superior Ambites tenuis Ambites wissneri
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Triassic of Canada (17: British Columbia, Nunavut collections), China (28), India (27), Madagascar (1), Pakistan (22), the Russian Federation (9), United States (7: Nevada)
Total: 111 collections including 137 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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