Austroceratites
Austroceratites Temporal range: Triassic
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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 .
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
Categories:
- Ceratitidae
- Ceratitida genera
- Triassic ammonites
- Fossils of France
- Ceratitida stubs