Alternative combination: Michelinoceras expansum
Belongs to Orthoceras according to Blake 1882
Sister taxa: Orthoceras annulata, Orthoceras bisignatum, Orthoceras burgense, Orthoceras compressum, Orthoceras decrescens, Orthoceras dominans, Orthoceras elegantulum, Orthoceras eurekensis, Orthoceras fluminense, Orthoceras geinitzi, Orthoceras gradatum, Orthoceras hulli, Orthoceras kingii, Orthoceras lentum, Orthoceras lepton, Orthoceras luhai, Orthoceras modestum, Orthoceras oehlerti, Orthoceras orientale, Orthoceras progressum, Orthoceras punjabiense, Orthoceras rachidium, Orthoceras randolphensis, Orthoceras siculum, Orthoceras spissiseptum, Orthoceras submoniliforme, Orthoceras subtriangulare, Orthoceras transversum, Orthoceras turritellum, Orthoceras vagum, Orthoceras vesiculosum, Orthoceras waageni, Orthoceratites, Orthoceros regularis
Type specimen: GSM 103511, a shell. Its type locality is Killey Bridge Fm. locality 1, NE of Pomeroy, which is in a Richmondian offshore mudstone/siltstone in the Killey Bridge Formation of the United Kingdom.
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution: found only at Killey Bridge Fm. locality 1, NE of Pomeroy
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