Brotheotrachyceras
| Brotheotrachyceras Temporal range:
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| Brotheotrachyceras brotheus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Subclass: | †Ammonoidea |
| Order: | †Ceratitida |
| Family: | †Trachyceratidae |
| Genus: | † Urlichs 1994 |
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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
- ^ Paleobiology Database - Austrotrachyceras. 29 May 2014.
- ^ Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "Sepkoski's Online Genus Database". Retrieved 28 May 2014.
- ^ 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
Bibliography
- E. von Mojsisovics. 1882. Die Cephalopoden der Mediterranen Triasprovinz. Abhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Geologischen Reichsanstalt 10:1-322
- Arkell, W.J.; Kummel, B.; Wright, C.W. (1957). Mesozoic Ammonoidea. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L, Mollusca 4. Lawrence, Kansas: Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press.