Paraceratites elegans

Paraceratites elegans is an extinct species of ammonite cephalopod in the family Ceratitidae. It is known from the Triassic of China and Israel.

Paraceratitites elegans
Temporal range: 247.2–242.0 Ma
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Cephalopoda
Subclass:
†Ammonoidea
Order:
†Ceratitida
Superfamily:
†Ceratitaceae
Family:
†Ceratitidae
Subfamily:
Paraceratitinae
Genus:
†Paraceratites

Species:
†P. elegans
Binomial name
†Paraceratites elegans
Synonyms

†Ceratites elegans Mojsisovics, 1882[2]

References
  1. Die Cephalopoden der mediterranen Triasprovinz. Edmund von Mojsisovics Alfred Hölder, KK Hof-und Universitäts-Buchhändler, 1882.
  2. The Middle Triassic Marine Invertebrate Faunas of North America, Numéro 83. James Perrin Smith, 1914


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