Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Paraceltitidae
Full reference: E. Böse. 1919. The Permo-Carboniferous ammonoids of the Glass Mountains, west Texas, and their stratigraphic significance. Texas Bureau of Economic Geology Bulletin 1762:1-241
Belongs to Paraceltites according to T. B. Leonova 2002
See also Böse 1919, Miller and Furnish 1940, Plummer and Scott 1937, Spinosa et al. 1975 and Xu 1977
Sister taxa: Paraceltites altudensis, Paraceltites costatus, Paraceltites elegans, Paraceltites hoeferi, Paraceltites hubeiensis, Paraceltites hunanensis, Paraceltites ornatus, Paraceltites platyventrus, Paraceltites rectangularis, Paraceltites sellardsi, Paraceltites xizangensis, Paraceltites zhongguoensis
Type specimen: Its type locality is 2.5 miles N70E of second tank above Hess Ranch house, which is in a Wordian carbonate limestone in the Word Formation of Texas
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 14.7
Distribution:
• Permian of China (1 collection), United States (1: Texas)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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