Probillingsites cobourgensis Flower 1952 (mollusk)

Cephalopoda - Ascocerida - Probillingsitidae

Full reference: R. H. Flower. 1952. New Ordovician Cephalopods from Eastern North America. Journal of Paleontology 26(1):24-59

Belongs to Probillingsites according to R. H. Flower 1952

Sister taxa: Probillingsites inflatus, Probillingsites scandinavicum, Probillingsites welleri

Type specimen: a specimen in the collection of G. Winston Sinclair, a shell. Its type locality is Cobourg, which is in a Shermanian/Edenian carbonate limestone in the Cobourg limestone Formation of Canada.

Ecology: fast-moving nektobenthic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Cobourg

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