Cladiscites beyrichi
Ammonite
Late Triassic (Carnian)
Timor, Bihati, West Timor, Indonesia

Very large 136mm Triassic ammonite.

Ceratite. Ammonite. Cephalopod.

Cladiscites is a genus of ammonite known from the Triassic of Indonesia and Austria which indicates a wide distribution at a time when all the continents had drifted into each other forming one supercontinent (Pangaea), also forming one superocean (Panthalassa).

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