Lissonites lissoni Jaworski 1922 (ceratite)

Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Metasibiritidae

Alternative combination: Nevadites lissoni

Full reference: E. Jaworski. 1922. Die marine Trias in Süd-America. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie 47(Supplement):93-200

Belongs to Lissonites according to E. T. Tozer 1979

See also Jaworski 1922

Sister taxa: Lissonites canadensis, Lissonites pecki, Lissonites sutanensis

Type specimen: Its type locality is Suta, Utcubamba Valley, which is in a Norian carbonate limestone in Peru

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Suta, Utcubamba Valley

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