Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Metalegoceratidae

Alternative combination: Parametalegoceras arcticum

Full reference: M. F. Bogoslovskaya. 1982. Taxonomic names, in Permian ammonoids of Novaya Zemlya. Paleontological Journal 16:54-63

Belongs to Metalegoceras according to W. M. Furnish et al. 2009

See also Bogoslovskaya 1982 and Leonova 2002

Sister taxa: Metalegoceras (Artimetalegoceras), Metalegoceras (Metalegoceras), Metalegoceras ajdaralense, Metalegoceras aricki, Metalegoceras australe, Metalegoceras baylorense, Metalegoceras bosterense, Metalegoceras crenatum, Metalegoceras distale, Metalegoceras evolutum, Metalegoceras gerassimovi, Metalegoceras hudsoni, Metalegoceras kayi, Metalegoceras klimovi, Metalegoceras liratum, Metalegoceras noinskyi, Metalegoceras pamiricum, Metalegoceras platyventrum, Metalegoceras rotundatum, Metalegoceras schucherti, Metalegoceras shangraoense, Metalegoceras shyndense, Metalegoceras sogurense, Metalegoceras spirale, Metalegoceras striatum, Metalegoceras sundaicum, Metalegoceras toumanskayae, Metalegoceras tschernyschewi, Metalegoceras wanneri

Type specimen: PIN 3638/151, a shell. Its type locality is Cape Perovskiy, Collection 13800-3a, Novaya Zemlya, which is in a Sakmarian marine horizon in the Sokolov Formation of the Russian Federation.

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 83.0

Distribution: found only at Cape Perovskiy, Collection 13800-3a, Novaya Zemlya

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