Biology:Austroceratites
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Short description: Genus of molluscs (fossil)
| Austroceratites Temporal range: Triassic
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| Subfamily: | Ceratitinae
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| Genus: | Austroceratites Wegner, 1957
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Austroceratites is a genus of extinct shelled cephalopods that lived during the Triassic, included in ammonoid order Ceratitida. Within the Ceratitida, Autroceratites belongs in the family Ceratitidae and subfamily Ceratitinae.
Ceratitidae, in which Austroceratites is placed, is a mid Triassic family that has left evolute to involute, stoutly ribbed, discoidal shells with ceratitic sutures.
References
- Austroceratites entry in The Paleobiology Database accessed 10 July 2012
Wikidata ☰ Q4825589 entry
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