Somoholites serus Bogoslovskaya 1997 (ammonite)

Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Somoholitidae

Full reference: M. F. Bogoslovskaya. 1997. Permian Ammonoids from the Pai-Khoy Range and Vaigach Island. Paleontological Journal 31(6):588-594

Belongs to Somoholites according to T. B. Leonova et al. 2022

See also Bogoslovskaya 1997 and Leonova 2002

Sister taxa: Somoholites andrianovi, Somoholites artus, Somoholites bamberi, Somoholites beluensis, Somoholites belyaevi, Somoholites deroeveri, Somoholites dolium, Somoholites glomerosus, Somoholites ikensis, Somoholites merriami, Somoholites miharanoroensis, Somoholites sagittarius, Somoholites sebyanicus, Somoholites shikhanensis, Somoholites sholakensis, Somoholites walkeri

Type specimen: PIN 4671/2. Its type locality is Vaigach Island, sample M-72, which is in an Asselian marine siliciclastic in the Sezymskaya Formation of the Russian Federation.

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 34.0

Distribution: found only at Vaigach Island, sample M-72

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