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Proptychitoides

Classification

    Phylum:  
Mollusca
    Class:  
Cephalopoda
    Order:  
Ceratitida
    Superfamily:  
Noritaceae
    Family:  
Proptychitidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Proptychitoides SPATH, 1930
    Type Species:  
P. decipiens (=Proptychites latifimbriatus ARTHABER, 1911 (non DeKoninck))


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Fig. 171,6. *P. decipiens, Albania, * (472*)


Synonyms



Geographic Distribution

Albania-Chios


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
U.Scyth.
    Beginning International Stage:  
Olenekian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
249.88
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
U.Scyth.
    Ending International Stage:  
Olenekian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
246.7


Description

Like Proptychites, with narrowly rounded venter and deep umbilicus but suture subammonitic, with monophyllic saddles




References

Spath, L. F., 1930, The Eotriassic invertebrate fauna of East Greenland: Meddel. om Grønland, Band 83, p. 1-90, pl. 1-12.


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