| Oecotraustes Temporal range: Bajocian–Callovian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Subclass: | †Ammonoidea |
| Order: | †Ammonitida |
| Family: | †Oppeliidae |
| Genus: | †Oecotraustes Waagen, 1869 |
Oecotraustes is an extinct cephalopod genus included in the ammonid family Oppeliidae and named by Wilhelm Waagen in 1869. Species in the genus lived during the Middle Jurassic.
Description
The shell of Oecotraustes is evolute, the outer whorl only moderately embracing the inner whorls, laterally compressed whorl height greater than width. Outer flanks and venter ribbed, ribs sinuous.
Distribution
Fossils of Oecotraustes species have been found in Jurassic sediments of Germany, India, Madagascar, Spain, and the United States.
References
- ^ Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "Sepkoski's Online Genus Database". Archived from the original on 2016-02-25. Retrieved 2014-05-28.
- "Fossilworks.org - Oecotraustes". Retrieved 17 December 2021.
Other sources
- W.J. Arkell et al., 1957. Mesozoic Ammonoidea; Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L, Ammonoidea. Geological Society of America.
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