Shumardites aktubensis Ruzhentsev 1950 (ammonite)

Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Shumarditidae

Full reference: V. E. Ruzhentsev. 1950. Verkhnekammenouglo'nye Ammonity Urala. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 29:1-223

Belongs to Shumardites according to M. F. Bogoslovskaya et al. 1995

See also Ruzhentsev 1950

Sister taxa: Shumardites confessus, Shumardites cuyleri, Shumardites librovitchi, Shumardites simondsi, Shumardites umbilicatus

Type specimen: PIN 319/1496, a shell. Its type locality is Aidaralash Creek, outcrop 8, which is in a Gzhelian marine limestone in Kazakhstan.

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 18.1

Distribution:

• Carboniferous of Kazakhstan (3 collections)

Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence

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