Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Metalegoceratidae

Full reference: B. F. Glenister, D. L. Windle Jr., and W. M. Furnish. 1973. Australasian Metalegoceratidae (Lower Permian ammonoids). Journal of Paleontology 47(6):1031-1043

Belongs to Metalegoceras according to T. B. Leonova 2002

See also Glenister et al. 1973

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 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: UWA 45246. Its type locality is Fossil Cliff, Irwin River (UWA collection), which is in a Sakmarian marine siliciclastic in the Holmwood Formation of Australia.

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 30.8

Distribution: found only at Fossil Cliff, Irwin River (UWA collection)

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Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.