词条 | Protetragonites |
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|fossil_range = from Jurassic to Cretaceous, {{fossil range|150.8|94.3}}[1] |image = Lytoceratidae - Protetragonites obliquestrangulatum.JPG |image_caption = Fossil shells of Protetragonites obliquestrangulatum from Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris |regnum = Animalia |phylum = Mollusca |classis = Cephalopoda |subclassis = Ammonoidea |ordo = Ammonitida |subordo = Lytoceratina |familia = Lytoceratidae |subfamilia = Lytoceratinae |genus = Protetragonites |genus_authority = Hyatt, 1900 |synonyms =
}}Protetragonites is an extinct genus of ammonoid cephalopods belonging to the family Lytoceratidae. These fast-moving nektonic carnivores [1] lived from the Jurassic period Tithonian age to the Cretaceous period Aptian age.[2] Species[1]
DescriptionShells of Protetragonites species reach a diameter of about {{convert|50|mm}}. Shells show few constrictions and a circular or triangular section.[4] DistributionFossils of species within this genus have been found in the Cretaceous rocks of Austria, Canada, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Dominican Republic, France, Hungary, Madagascar, Morocco, Poland, Spain, Russia, Ukraine, Western Sahara, as well in the Jurassic of Germany, Hungary and Italy.[1] References1. ^1 2 3 The Paleobiology Database 2. ^Sepkoski, Jack Sepkoski's Online Genus Database – Cephalopoda 3. ^{{Cite journal|author1=Michael W. Maisch |author2=Angélique Salfinger-Maisch |year=2016 |title=First record of the lytoceratid Protetragonites Hyatt, 1900 (Cephalopoda: Ammonoidea) from the Upper Jurassic of southwestern Germany |journal=Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen |volume=280 |issue=2 |pages=183–192 |doi=10.1127/njgpa/2016/0574 }} 4. ^Protetragonites External links
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