Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Metalegoceratidae
Full reference: A. K. Miller and W. M. Furnish. 1940. Permian ammonoids of the Guadalupe Mountain region and adjacent area. Geological Society of America Special Paper 26:1-242
Belongs to Metalegoceras according to T. B. Leonova 2002
See also Miller and Furnish 1940
Sister taxa: Metalegoceras (Artimetalegoceras), Metalegoceras (Metalegoceras), Metalegoceras ajdaralense, Metalegoceras arcticum, 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 shangraoense, Metalegoceras shyndense, Metalegoceras sogurense, Metalegoceras spirale, Metalegoceras striatum, Metalegoceras sundaicum, Metalegoceras toumanskayae, Metalegoceras tschernyschewi, Metalegoceras wanneri
Type specimen: SUI 2023. Its type locality is Dugout Mountain, small hill 1 miles NE of crest, which is in an Artinskian carbonate limestone in the Skinner Ranch Formation of Texas.
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 17.0
Distribution:
• Permian of United States (4: Texas collections)
Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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