Euroceras Ruzhentsev and Bogoslovskaya 1971 (ammonite)

Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Glaphyritidae

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: Stenoglaphyritinae according to W. M. Furnish et al. 2009

See also Korn 2006, Sepkoski 2002 and Titus 2000

Sister taxa: Aclistoceras, Clistoceras, Kardailites, Paraschartymites, Physematites, Rhadinites, Schartymites, Stenoglaphyrites, Subitoceras

Subtaxa: Euroceras ellipsoidale Euroceras nyense

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Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Sholak-Say Canyon, Sample 3, Southern Urals, Aktyubin Region (Carboniferous of Kazakhstan)

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