Svetlanoceras moylei Mikesh 1990 (ammonite)

Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Paragastrioceratidae

Full reference: D. L. Mikesh. 1990. Taxonomic names, in Additional Early Permian ammonoid cephalopods from Western Australia. Journal of Paleontology 64:392-399

Belongs to Svetlanoceras according to T. B. Leonova 2002

See also Mikesh 1990

Sister taxa: Svetlanoceras notium, Svetlanoceras primore, Svetlanoceras serpentinum, Svetlanoceras strigosum, Svetlanoceras tenue, Svetlanoceras uraloceraformis

Type specimen: SUI 10682. Its type locality is RWM 202-e, Lenox Hills, Glass Mountains, which is in an Artinskian marine limestone in the Lenox Hills Formation of Texas.

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 20.0

Distribution: found only at RWM 202-e, Lenox Hills, Glass Mountains

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