Oecotraustes
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Oecotraustes is an extinct cephalopod genus included in the ammonid family Oppeliidae and named by Waagen[who?] in 1869. The genus lived during the Middle Jurassic.[1]
Description
The shell of Oecotraustes is evolute, the outer whorl only moderately embracing the inner whorls, laterally compressed whorl height greater than width. Outer flanks and venter ribbed, ribs sinuous.[citation needed]
Distribution
Fossils of Oecotraustes species have been found in Jurassic sediments of Germany, India, Madagascar, Spain, and the United States.[2]
References
- ^ a b Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "Sepkoski's Online Genus Database". Retrieved 2014-05-28.
- ^ "Fossilworks.org - Oecotraustes". Retrieved 2014-05-28.
- W.J. Arkell et al., 1957. Mesozoic Ammonoidea; Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L, Ammonoidea. Geological Society of America.
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