Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Metalegoceratidae
Alternative combinations: Goniatites baylorensis, Paralegoceras baylorense
Full reference: C. A. White. 1891. The Texan Permian and its Mesozoic types of fossils. United States Geological Survey Bulletin (77)1-51
Belongs to Metalegoceras according to T. B. Leonova 2002
See also Kues 1995, Miller and Parizek 1948, Plummer and Scott 1937, Smith 1903 and White 1891
Sister taxa: Metalegoceras (Artimetalegoceras), Metalegoceras (Metalegoceras), Metalegoceras ajdaralense, Metalegoceras arcticum, Metalegoceras aricki, Metalegoceras australe, Metalegoceras bosterense, Metalegoceras crenatum, Metalegoceras distale, Metalegoceras evolutum, Metalegoceras gerassimovi, Metalegoceras hudsoni, Metalegoceras kayi, 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: Its type locality is Old Military Crossing, Whiskey Creek, Wichita River, which is in an Artinskian coastal siliciclastic in the Clyde Formation of Texas
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 61.8
Distribution:
• Permian of United States (4: New Mexico, Texas collections)
Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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