Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Paragastrioceratidae
Alternative combinations: Altudoceras beedei, Paragastrioceras beedei, Pseudogastrioceras beedei
Full reference: F. B. Plummer and G. Scott. 1937. Upper Paleozoic ammonites in Texas. The University of Texas Bulletin 3701:1-516
Belongs to Roadoceras according to T. B. Leonova 2002
See also Miller and Furnish 1940, Plummer and Scott 1937 and Ruzhentsev 1974
Sister taxa: Roadoceras bellum, Roadoceras chinense, Roadoceras haacki, Roadoceras hubeiense, Roadoceras plicatum, Roadoceras prodromus, Roadoceras roadense, Roadoceras sinense, Roadoceras tumidum, Roadoceras xizangense
Type specimen: Its type locality is B.E.G55-T-4, Terry's Church, east of Casey's Last Chance Well, which is in a Capitanian carbonate marl in the Bell Canyon Formation of Texas.
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 24.4
Distribution:
• Permian of China (1 collection), United States (5: Texas)
Total: 6 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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