Cephalopoda - Ellesmerocerida - Ellesmeroceratidae
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 Conocerina according to R. H. Flower 1964
Sister taxa: Conocerina arrecta, Conocerina bassleri, Conocerina beani, Conocerina brevis, Conocerina magna, Conocerina missouriensis, Conocerina obliqua, Conocerina raaschi, Conocerina sublonga
Type specimen: BEG 34763, a partial shell (most of a living chamber and parts of a few shallow camerae). Its type locality is Ellenburger Hills SE of Barnes Ranch headquarters, which is in a Gasconadian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal grainstone/chert in the Tanyard Formation of Texas.
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution: found only at Ellenburger Hills SE of Barnes Ranch headquarters
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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