Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Metalegoceratidae
Full reference: W. W. Nassichuk, W. M. Furnish, and B. F. Glenister. 1965. The Permian ammonoids of Arctic Canada. Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 131:1-56
Belongs to Metalegoceras according to T. B. Leonova 2002
See also Andrianov 1985 and Nassichuk et al. 1965
Sister taxa: Metalegoceras (Artimetalegoceras), Metalegoceras (Metalegoceras), Metalegoceras ajdaralense, Metalegoceras arcticum, Metalegoceras aricki, Metalegoceras australe, Metalegoceras baylorense, Metalegoceras bosterense, Metalegoceras distale, Metalegoceras evolutum, Metalegoceras gerassimovi, Metalegoceras hudsoni, Metalegoceras kayi, Metalegoceras klimovi, Metalegoceras liratum, Metalegoceras noinskyi, Metalegoceras pamiricum, Metalegoceras platyventrum, Metalegoceras rotundatum, Metalegoceras schucherti, Metalegoceras shangraoense, Metalegoceras shyndense, Metalegoceras sogurense, Metalegoceras spirale, Metalegoceras striatum, Metalegoceras sundaicum, Metalegoceras toumanskayae, Metalegoceras tschernyschewi, Metalegoceras wanneri
Type specimen: GSC 18786. Its type locality is GSC 53860, Section 116P-10, Richardson Mountains , which is in a Sakmarian marine siltstone in Canada.
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 400.0
Distribution:
• Permian of Canada (2: Nunavut, Yukon collections), the Russian Federation (1)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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