Kingdom Animalia Class Cephalopoda Rank Genus | Phylum Mollusca Subclass Ammonoidea | |
Similar Normannites, Oxycerites, Orthaspidoceras, Ochetoceras, Neolissoceras | ||
Oecoptychius is an extinct genus of fossil ammonite cephalopods. The species lived during the Middle Jurassic.
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Taxonomic position
Oecophtychius was named by Neumayr in 1878. It is placed into Oecoptychitidae, a family of dwarf ammonites established by Arkell, 1957, that is a part of the superfamily Stephanoceratoidea.
Diagnosis
Oecoptychius is an eccentrically coiled, dwarf ammonite. Inner whorls smooth, spheroidal; outer whorls with fine biplicate rbbing, ventral groove, and an acute elbow at half a whorl before the aperture; peristome contracted, with outwardly directed lappets.
Distribution
Fossils of the Oecophtychius species have been found in Jurassic sediments of France, Germany and Madagascar.
References
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