Metaperrinites vicinus Miller and Furnish 1940 (ammonite)

Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Perrinitidae

Alternative combination: Properrinites vicinus

Full reference: A. K. Miller and W. M. Furnish. 1940. Permian ammonoids of the Guadalupe Mountain region and adjacent area. Geological Society of America Special Paper 26:1-242

Belongs to Metaperrinites according to T. B. Leonova 2002

See also Miller and Furnish 1940

Sister taxa: Metaperrinites cumminsi, Metaperrinites involutus, Metaperrinites ishibashii, Metaperrinites milleri, Metaperrinites obsoletus, Metaperrinites schucherti, Metaperrinites shaiwaensis, Metaperrinites toumanskayae, Metaperrinites waageni, Ripernites pressulus, Mapirites latumbilicatus, Paraperrinites brouweri, Paraperrinites subcumminsi, Nepirrites medius

Type specimen: Its type locality is Four miles south of Electra, which is in an Artinskian marine siliciclastic in the Valera Shale Formation of Texas

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Four miles south of Electra

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