Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Metalegoceratidae
Full reference: A. K. Miller and W. M. Furnish. 1957. Permian ammonoids from southern Arabia. Journal of Paleontology 31:1043-1051
Belongs to Metalegoceras according to A. K. Miller and W. M. Furnish 1957
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 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: SUI 5994. Its type locality is Haushi, Lower Half of Section, which is in a Sakmarian shallow subtidal limestone in the Saiwan Formation of Oman.
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 38.0
Distribution: found only at Haushi, Lower Half of Section
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