Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Paragastrioceratidae
Alternative combination: Uraloceras plicatum
Full reference: X. L. Liang. 1981. Early Permian cephalopods from northwestern Gansu and western Nei Mongol. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 20:485-500
Belongs to Roadoceras according to Y. D. Zakharov and L. Mu 2004
See also Leonova 2002 and Liang 1981
Sister taxa: Roadoceras beedei, Roadoceras bellum, Roadoceras chinense, Roadoceras haacki, Roadoceras hubeiense, Roadoceras prodromus, Roadoceras roadense, Roadoceras sinense, Roadoceras tumidum, Roadoceras xizangense
Type specimen: NIGP 62046
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 52.8
Distribution: found only at F9, bed 14, Shuangputang, Jinta County (Permian of China)
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