Metalegoceras spirale Zhao and Zheng 1977 (ammonite)

Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Metalegoceratidae

Alternative combination: Pseudometalegoceras spirale

Full reference: J. K. Zhao and Z. G. Zheng. 1977. The Permian ammonoids from Zhejiang and Jiangxi. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 16:217-252

Belongs to Metalegoceras according to W. M. Furnish et al. 2009

See also Boiko et al. 2008 and Leonova 2002

Sister taxa: 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 striatum, Metalegoceras sundaicum, Metalegoceras toumanskayae, Metalegoceras tschernyschewi, Metalegoceras wanneri

Type specimen: NIGP 44603, a shell. Its type locality is Caijiawan, Pengjia Mb, Shangrao County, which is in a Wordian marine siliciclastic in the Hutang Formation of China.

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 62.9

Distribution: found only at Caijiawan, Pengjia Mb, Shangrao County

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