Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Paragastrioceratidae
Full reference: A. K. Miller. 1944. Permian cephalopods, Part IV of Geology and paleontology of the Permian area northwest of Las Delicias, southeastern Coahulia, Mexico. Geological Society of America Special Paper 52:71-127
Belongs to Strigogoniatites according to T. B. Leonova 2002
See also Miller 1944
Sister taxa: Strigogoniatites anfuensis, Strigogoniatites angulatus, Strigogoniatites changningensis, Strigogoniatites fountaini, Strigogoniatites hubeiensis, Strigogoniatites liuchowensis, Strigogoniatites nodosus, Strigogoniatites umbilicatus
Type specimen: YPM 16252,16261. Its type locality is King 20, Beds 5,7, Cerro Wencelao to El Indio, Las Delicias, which is in a Capitanian marine shale/limestone in the La Difunta Formation of Mexico.
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 110.6
Distribution: found only at King 20, Beds 5,7, Cerro Wencelao to El Indio, Las Delicias
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