Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Agathiceratidae
Full reference: E. Böse. 1919. The Permo-Carboniferous ammonoids of the Glass Mountains, west Texas, and their stratigraphic significance. Texas Bureau of Economic Geology Bulletin 1762:1-241
Belongs to Agathiceras according to T. B. Leonova 2002
See also Böse 1919 and Plummer and Scott 1937
Sister taxa: Agathiceras (Agathiceras), Agathiceras anceps, Agathiceras applanatum, Agathiceras applini, Agathiceras brouweri, Agathiceras broweri, Agathiceras ciscoense, Agathiceras contractum, Agathiceras divisum, Agathiceras girtyi, Agathiceras iranicum, Agathiceras jilinense, Agathiceras mediterraneum, Agathiceras sequaxilirae, Agathiceras suessi, Agathiceras sundaicum, Agathiceras tornatum, Agathiceras uralicum, Agathiceras verkhoyanicum, Agathiceras vulgatum
Type specimen: Its type locality is Wolf Camp, Glass Mountains, which is in a Gzhelian carbonate limestone in the Gaptank Formation of Texas
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 11.0
Distribution:
• Carboniferous of United States (3: Texas collections)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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