Brotheotrachyceras

Brotheotrachyceras Temporal range: Carnian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Brotheotrachyceras brotheus
Scientific 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

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.