Cephalopoda - Ellesmerocerida - Ellesmeroceratidae
Full reference: B. Kröger and E. Landing. 2008. Onset of the Ordovician cephalopod radiation - evidence from the Rochdale Formation (middle Early Ordovician, Stairsian)in eastern New York. Geological Magazine 145(4):490-520
Belongs to Bassleroceras according to B. Kröger and E. Landing 2008
Sister taxa: Bassleroceras acinacellum, Bassleroceras alethes, Bassleroceras beekmanense, Bassleroceras bridgei, Bassleroceras champlainense, Bassleroceras dalevillense, Bassleroceras kayi, Bassleroceras kirbyi, Bassleroceras lasallense, Bassleroceras microscopium, Bassleroceras perseus, Bassleroceras spissiseptum, Bassleroceras tenuiculum, Bassleroceras triangulum, Bassleroceras vassarina
Type specimen: NYSM 17473. Its type locality is NYSM locality 5897, which is in a Stairsian shallow subtidal reef rocks/dolomite in the Rochdale Formation of New York.
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution: found only at NYSM locality 5897
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