Richmondoceras brevicameratum Frey 1995 (mollusk)

Cephalopoda - Actinocerida - Greenlandoceratidae

Full reference: R. C. Frey. 1995. Middle and Upper Ordovician nautiloid cephalopods of the Cincinnati Arch region of Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio. U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1066P:1-126

Belongs to Richmondoceras according to R. C. Frey 1995

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: MU 398T, a partial shell (body chamber and adoral portions of phragmocone). Its type locality is Laugherty Creek, which is in a Richmondian shallow subtidal limestone in the Saluda Formation of Indiana.

Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Distribution:

• Ordovician of United States (3: Indiana, Ohio collections)

Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence

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