Cavilentia Ruzhentsev and Bogoslovskaya 1971 (ammonite)

Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Nomismoceratidae

Full reference: V. E. Ruzhentsev and M. F. Bogoslovskaya. 1971. Namurskiy etap v evolyutsii ammonoidey. Rannenamyurskie ammonoidei. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 133:1-382

Parent taxon: Nomismoceratidae according to W. M. Furnish et al. 2009

See also Korn 2006 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Beleutoceras, Eonomismoceras, Nomismoceras, Pseudonomismoceras, Simmonoceras

Subtaxa: Cavilentia tenuicula

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Type: Cavilentia tenuicula

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Ural River, Verkhnyaya Kardailovka, sample 4 (Carboniferous of Russian Federation)

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