Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Metalegoceratidae
Synonyms: Asianites Ruzhentsev 1933, Dodecalegoceras Voinova 1934, Parametalegoceras Bogoslovskaya 1982, Pseudometalegoceras Bogoslovskaya 1985
Parent taxon: Metalegoceratinae according to W. M. Furnish et al. 2009
See also Korn 2006, Leonova 1989, Leonova 2002, Ruzhentsev 1956 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Bransonoceras, Juresanites, Pseudoschistoceras
Subtaxa: Metalegoceras (Artimetalegoceras) Metalegoceras (Metalegoceras) Metalegoceras ajdaralense Metalegoceras arcticum Metalegoceras aricki Metalegoceras australe Metalegoceras baylorense Metalegoceras bosterense Metalegoceras crenatum Metalegoceras distale Metalegoceras evolutum Metalegoceras gerassimovi Metalegoceras hudsoni Metalegoceras kayi Metalegoceras klimovi Metalegoceras liratum Metalegoceras noinskyi Metalegoceras pamiricum Metalegoceras platyventrum Metalegoceras rotundatum Metalegoceras schucherti Metalegoceras shangraoense Metalegoceras shyndense Metalegoceras sogurense Metalegoceras spirale Metalegoceras striatum Metalegoceras sundaicum Metalegoceras toumanskayae Metalegoceras tschernyschewi Metalegoceras wanneri
Type: Paralegoceras evolutum
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Permian of Australia (5 collections), Canada (2: Nunavut, Yukon), China (3), East Timor (2), Indonesia (6), Kazakhstan (8), Malaysia (1), Oman (1), the Russian Federation (10), Tajikistan (32), United States (12: New Mexico, Texas)
Total: 82 collections including 115 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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