Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Adrianitidae
Alternative combinations: Paralegoceras incertum, Plummerites incertus
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 Emilites according to T. B. Leonova and M. S. Boiko 2015
See also Böse 1919, Leonova 2002, Mapes and Boardman 1988, Miller and Furnish 1940 and Miller and Furnish 1940
Sister taxa: Emilites bennisoni, Emilites brownwoodi, Emilites globosus, Emilites plummeri, Emilites prosperus
Type specimen: Its type locality is Wolf Camp, Glass Mountains, which is in a Gzhelian carbonate limestone in the Gaptank Formation of Texas
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 10.9
Distribution:
• Carboniferous of United States (4: Kansas, Texas collections)
Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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