Oncoceras major Frey 1995 (mollusk)

Cephalopoda - Oncocerida - Oncoceratidae

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 Oncoceras according to R. C. Frey 1995

Sister taxa: Oncoceras carletonense, Oncoceras pauper, Oncoceras pristinum

Type specimen: Its type locality is USGS 6034-CO, Sulphur Well(s), New Watts Mill Rd., Little Hickman A section, which is in a Rocklandian shallow subtidal grainstone in the Tyrone Limestone Formation of Kentucky

Ecology: fast-moving nektobenthic carnivore

Distribution: found only at USGS 6034-CO, Sulphur Well(s), New Watts Mill Rd., Little Hickman A section

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