Stearoceras simplex Hyatt 1893 (mollusk)

Cephalopoda - Nautilida - Liroceratidae

Alternative combination: Domatoceras simplex

Full reference: A. Hyatt. 1893. Carboniferous cephalopods, second paper. Annual Report of the Geological Survey of Texas 4(2):377-474

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

See also Hyatt 1893

Sister taxa: Stearoceras conchiferum, Stearoceras gibbosum, Stearoceras hesperium, Stearoceras immane, Stearoceras involutum, Stearoceras militarium, Stearoceras phosphoriense, Stearoceras punjabicum, Stearoceras smithi, Stearoceras sublaeve

Type specimen: Its type locality is Old Military Crossing, Whiskey Creek, Wichita River, which is in an Artinskian coastal siliciclastic in the Clyde Formation of Texas

Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Old Military Crossing, Whiskey Creek, Wichita River

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