Arthaberites
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Arthaberites is a ceratitid
Ceratitida
The Ceratitida is an order that contains almost all ammonoid cephalopod genera from the Triassic as well as ancestral forms from the Upper Permian, the exception being the phylloceratids which gave rise to the great diversity of post Triassic ammonites....

 cephalopod included in the Noritidae
Noritidea
The Noritidae, sometimes spelled Noritidea, is an extinct cephalopod family of belonging to the ammonoid order Ceratitida and superfamily Noritaceae....

that lived during the Middle Triassic, found in the Alps and Balkans of Europe. Its type is A. alexandrae

Arthaberites has an involute, compressed, discoidal shell with a narrow flatted venter, or outer rim.

References

  • Arkell et al, 1957. Mesozoic Ammonoidea. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L. Geological Soc. of America and University of Kansas Press.
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