†Daixites meglitzkyi Ruzhentsev 1941 (ammonite)
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Cephalopoda - Prolecanitida - Medlicottiidae
Belongs to Daixites according to T. B. Leonova 2002
See also Bogoslovskaya et al. 1995 and Ruzhentsev 1950
Sister taxa: Daixites antipovi, Daixites attenuatus
Type specimen: PIN 320/149. Its type locality is Ural river, northwest of Ilinskoe, bed 29, which is in a Gzhelian marine siliciclastic in the Russian Federation.
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 34.3
Distribution:
• Carboniferous of Kazakhstan (2 collections), the Russian Federation (2)
Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence
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