Cephalopoda - Ellesmerocerida - Ellesmeroceratidae
Full reference: E. O. Ulrich, A. F. Foerste, A. K. Miller and W. M. Furnish. 1944. Ozarkian and Canadian cephalopods, longicones and summary. Geological Society of America Special Paper 58:1-226
Belongs to Bassleroceras according to E. O. Ulrich et al. 1944
Sister taxa: Bassleroceras acinacellum, Bassleroceras alethes, Bassleroceras beekmanense, Bassleroceras bridgei, Bassleroceras champlainense, Bassleroceras dalevillense, Bassleroceras kayi, Bassleroceras kirbyi, Bassleroceras microscopium, Bassleroceras perseus, Bassleroceras smithbasinense, Bassleroceras spissiseptum, Bassleroceras tenuiculum, Bassleroceras triangulum, Bassleroceras vassarina
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution: found only at Black Ball Cement Works (Ordovician of Illinois)
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