Cephalopoda - Ammonoidea - Gymnitidae

PaleoDB taxon number: 302244

Alternative combination: Pinacoceras omphalium

Full reference: E. von Mojsisovics. 1873. Das Gebirge um Hallstatt. Eine geologisch-paläontologische Studie aus den Alpen. 1 Teil, Die Mollusken-Faunen der Zlambach- und Hallstätter-Schichten. Abhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Geologischen Reichsanstalt 6(1):1-82

Belongs to Placites according to E. von Mojsisovics 1902

Sister taxa: Placites humboldtensis, Placites myophorus, Placites oldhami, Placites oxyphyllus, Placites perauctus, Placites placodes, Placites platyphyllus, Placites polydactylus, Placites postsymmetricus, Placites subsymmetricus

Type specimen: Its type locality is Sandling, red Gastropoden beds, which is in a Lacian carbonate limestone in the Halstatt Formation of Austria

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Average measurements (in mm): shell width 8.00, shell diameter 37.0