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Indocephalites

Classification

    Phylum:  
Mollusca
    Class:  
Cephalopoda
    Order:  
Ammonitida
    Superfamily:  
Haplocerataceae
    Family:  
Macrocephalitidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Indocephalites SPATH, 1928 [Subgen. of Macrocephalites]
    Type Species:  
I. kheraensis


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Fig. 352,4. *M.? (I.) kheraensis, Cutch, 4a-d, x0.3 (466*)


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Geographic Distribution

Cutch


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
L.Callov.
    Beginning International Stage:  
Callovian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
165.29
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
L.Callov.
    Ending International Stage:  
Callovian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
50
    Ending Date:  
163.41


Description

Inner whorls cadicone, strongly ribbed, outer whorls becoming more compressed, smooth, macrocephalus-like. [?Subgen. of Macrocephalites]




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