Balkoceras gracile Flower 1964 (mollusk)

Cephalopoda - Ellesmerocerida - Balkoceratidae

Full reference: R. H. Flower. 1964. The Nautiloid Order Ellesmeroceratida (Cephalopoda). State Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Memoir 12:234 p.

Belongs to Balkoceras according to R. H. Flower 1964

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: RHF 307, a shell. Its type locality is Threadgill Creek section (San Saba Limestone), which is in a Trempealeauan shallow subtidal grainstone in the Wilberns Formation of Texas.

Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Threadgill Creek section (San Saba Limestone)

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