Decorites avus Ruzhentsev and Bogoslovskaya 1978 (ammonite)

Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Homoceratidae

Full reference: V. E. Ruzhentsev and M. F. Bogoslovskaya. 1978. Namyurskii etap v evolyutsii ammonoidyey - Namurian stage, evolution of ammonoids. Trudyi paleontologicheskovo instituta 167:1-338

Belongs to Decorites according to V. E. Ruzhentsev and M. F. Bogoslovskaya 1978

Sister taxa: Decorites crassicostatus, Decorites tenuicostatus

Type specimen: PIN 2195/3009, a shell. Its type locality is Aravan River, SW of Yangi-Kurgan, 470 m east of Koksarau Mt., Sample 8, Fergana, which is in an Alportian/Kinderscoutian offshore shelf limestone in Uzbekistan.

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 13.7

Distribution: found only at Aravan River, SW of Yangi-Kurgan, 470 m east of Koksarau Mt., Sample 8, Fergana

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