Pseudagathiceras ornatum Ehiro and Araki 1997 (ammonite)

Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Adrianitidae

Full reference: M. Ehiro and H. Araki. 1997. Permian cephalopods of Kurosawa, Kesennuma City in the Southern Kitakami Massif, northeast Japan. Paleontological Research 1:55-66

Belongs to Pseudagathiceras according to T. B. Leonova 2002

See also Ehiro and Araki 1997

Sister taxa: Pseudagathiceras difuntense, Pseudagathiceras spinosum, Pseudagathiceras wichmanni

Type specimen: IGPS 103135. Its type locality is Kurosawa B-1, which is in a Capitanian deep-water mudstone in the Ochiai Formation of Japan.

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 35.0

Distribution: found only at Kurosawa B-1

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