Stenopoceras cooperi Miller and Unklesbay 1942 (nautiloid)

Cephalopoda - Nautilida - Grypoceratidae

Full reference: A. K. Miller and A. G. Unklesbay. 1942. Permian nautiloids from western United States. Journal of Paleontology 16(6):719-738

Belongs to Stenopoceras according to A. K. Miller and W. Youngquist 1949

See also Miller and Unklesbay 1942

Sister taxa: Stenopoceras (Leptodomatoceras), Stenopoceras abundum, Stenopoceras dumbli, Stenopoceras inexpectans, Stenopoceras orientale, Stenopoceras whitei

Type specimen: SUI 2120. Its type locality is Grenola, Highway 160 at Cowley-Elk County Line, which is in an Asselian coastal shale in the Neva Formation of Kansas.

Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 98.0

Distribution: found only at Grenola, Highway 160 at Cowley-Elk County Line

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