Mosquoceras huecoense Ruzhentsev and Shimanskiy 1954 (nautiloid)

Cephalopoda - Nautilida - Mosquoceratidae

Full reference: V. E. Ruzhentsev and V. N. Shimanskiy. 1954. Nizhnepermskie svernutye i sognutye Nautiloidei yuzhnogo Urala. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 50:1-150

Belongs to Mosquoceras according to V. E. Ruzhentsev and V. N. Shimanskiy 1954

Sister taxa: Mosquoceras jakowlewi, Mosquoceras planum, Mosquoceras simense, Mosquoceras tschernyschewi

Type specimen: Its type locality is USNM712, Orogrande, which is in an Artinskian shallow subtidal limestone in the Hueco Formation of New Mexico

Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Distribution: found only at USNM712, Orogrande

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