Monophyllites caucasius Shevyrev 1995 (ammonite)

Cephalopoda - Phylloceratida - Ussuritidae

Full reference: A. A. Shevyrev. 1995. Triassic ammonoids of the northwest Caucasus. Rossiyskaya Akademiya Nauk, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 264:1-174

Belongs to Monophyllites according to A. A. Shevyrev 1995

Sister taxa: Monophyllites (Schizophyllites), Monophyllites anatolicus, Monophyllites aonis, Monophyllites bytschkovi, Monophyllites kieperti, Monophyllites sphaerophyllus, Monophyllites wengensis, Monophyllites wetsoni

Type specimen: PIN 1477/549. Its type locality is Tkhach River, right bank near bridge, Phyllocladiscites-Nicomedites beds, which is in a Bithynian marine carbonate in the Acheshbok Formation of the Russian Federation.

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 79.9

Distribution: found only at Tkhach River, right bank near bridge, Phyllocladiscites-Nicomedites beds

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