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Brotheotrachyceras
Temporal range: Carnian
Brotheotrachyceras brotheus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: †Ammonoidea
Order: †Ceratitida
Family: †Trachyceratidae
Genus: †Brotheotrachyceras
Urlichs 1994
Species[1]
  • B. brotheus Munster 1834
  • B. difforme Munster 1834

Brotheotrachyceras is a genus of ammonite cephalopod belonging to the order Ceratitida. It was living during the Carnian age of the Late Triassic Epoch.[2]

Classification

The family to which Brotheotrachyceras belongs, Trachyceratidae,[3] has more or less involute, highly ornamented shells and ceratitic to ammonitic sutures.

References

  1. ^ Paleobiology Database - Austrotrachyceras. 29 May 2014.
  2. ^ Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "Sepkoski's Online Genus Database". Retrieved 28 May 2014.
  3. ^ P. Mietto and S. Manfrin. 2008. Taxonomic names, in Selected ammonoid fauna from Prati Di Stuores/Stuores Wiesen and related sections across the Ladinian-Carnian boundary (southern Alps, Italy). Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 114:377-429

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