Mongoloceras omanicum Glenister and Furnish 1988 (ammonite)

Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Mongoloceratidae

Full reference: B. F. Glenister and W.M. Furnish. 1988. Patterns in stratigraphic distribution of Popanocerataceae, Permian ammonoids. Senckenbergiana Lethaea 69(1/2):43-71

Belongs to Mongoloceras according to T. B. Leonova 2002

See also Glenister and Furnish 1988

Sister taxon: Mongoloceras globiense

Type specimen: SUI 53819. Its type locality is Ba'id 2, 3 km SW of village, which is in a Roadian basinal (carbonate) grainstone/limestone in the Al Jil Formation of Oman.

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 30.9

Distribution: found only at Ba'id 2, 3 km SW of village

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