Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Thalassoceratidae
Full reference: V. E. Ruzhentsev. 1950. Verkhnekammenouglo'nye Ammonity Urala. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 29:1-223
Belongs to Prothalassoceras according to M. F. Bogoslovskaya et al. 1995
See also Ruzhentsev 1950
Sister taxa: Prothalassoceras biforme, Prothalassoceras bostocki, Prothalassoceras caddoense, Prothalassoceras dieneri, Prothalassoceras inflatum, Prothalassoceras jaikense, Prothalassoceras kingorum, Prothalassoceras notabile, Prothalassoceras serratum, Prothalassoceras solitum, Prothalassoceras umbilicatum, Prothalassoceras welleri, Allothalassoceras busterense, Allothalassoceras karpinskyi, Allothalassoceras bogoslovskayae, Allothalassoceras sangvorense
Type specimen: PIN 320/5296, a shell. Its type locality is Ika River basin, east of Yuldybaevo (upper Orenburgian), which is in a Gzhelian marine siliciclastic in the Russian Federation.
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 14.5
Distribution:
• Carboniferous to Permian of Kazakhstan (1 collection)
• Carboniferous of Kazakhstan (3), the Russian Federation (3)
Total: 7 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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