Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Agathiceratidae
Full reference: E. Böse. 1919. The Permo-Carboniferous ammonoids of the Glass Mountains, west Texas, and their stratigraphic significance. Texas Bureau of Economic Geology Bulletin 1762:1-241
Belongs to Agathiceras according to M. Fujikawa et al. 2005
See also Böse 1919, Clifton 1942, Leonova 2002, Miller 1944, Miller 1945, Miller and Furnish 1940, Nassichuk 1977 and Plummer and Scott 1937
Sister taxa: Agathiceras (Agathiceras), Agathiceras anceps, Agathiceras applanatum, Agathiceras applini, Agathiceras brouweri, Agathiceras broweri, Agathiceras ciscoense, Agathiceras contractum, Agathiceras divisum, Agathiceras frechi, Agathiceras iranicum, Agathiceras jilinense, Agathiceras mediterraneum, Agathiceras sequaxilirae, Agathiceras suessi, Agathiceras sundaicum, Agathiceras tornatum, Agathiceras uralicum, Agathiceras verkhoyanicum, Agathiceras vulgatum
Type specimen: Its type locality is Half mile SE of junction of Road and Gilliam canyons, which is in a Roadian carbonate limestone in the Word Formation of Texas
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 11.5
Distribution:
• Permian of Canada (1: British Columbia collection), Mexico (1), Thailand (1), United States (15: Texas)
Total: 18 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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