Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Proptychitidae
Synonym: Proptychites typicus von Krafft 1909
Full reference: W. Waagen. 1895. Fossils from the Ceratite Formation. Salt Range Fossils, Palaeontologia Indica, Series 13 2(1):1-323
Belongs to Proptychites according to D. Ware and H. Bucher 2018
See also Spath 1934, Waagen 1895 and Ware and Bucher 2018
Sister taxa: Proptychites aberrans, Proptychites ammonoides, Proptychites anomalus, Proptychites candidus, Proptychites discoides, Proptychites grandis, Proptychites intermedius, Proptychites kummeli, Proptychites latifimbriatus, Proptychites lawrencianus, Proptychites magnumbilicatus, Proptychites markhami, Proptychites mulleri, Proptychites newelli, Proptychites pagei, Proptychites plicatus, Proptychites rosenkrantzi, Proptychites scheibleri, Proptychites simplex, Proptychites subdiscoides, Proptychites subgrandis, Proptychites trilobatus, Proptychites wargalensis
Type specimens:
- Proptychites oldhamianus: Its type locality is Nammal Gorge, road from Namal to Moosakheyl, Salt Range, which is in a Dienerian carbonate limestone in the Lower Ceratite Limestone Formation of Pakistan
- Proptychites typicus:
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 62.0
Distribution:
• Triassic of China (1 collection), India (5), Nepal (1), Pakistan (4)
Total: 11 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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