Cephalopoda - Ellesmerocerida - Rioceratidae
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 Rioceras according to R. H. Flower 1964
Sister taxa: Rioceras consuetum, Rioceras depressum, Rioceras escandei, Rioceras expansum, Rioceras fusiforme, Rioceras lobatum, Rioceras nondescriptum, Rioceras tubulare, Rioceras wellsi
Type specimen: NMBM 866, a partial shell (phragmocone). Its type locality is Southern Franklin Mts. at El Paso, which is in a Cassinian shallow subtidal dolomite in the Scenic Drive Formation of Texas.
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution: found only at Southern Franklin Mts. at El Paso
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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