Metalegoceras rotundatum Ruzhentsev 1956 (ammonite)

Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Metalegoceratidae

Full reference: V. E. Ruzhentsev. 1956. Nizhnepermskie ammonity yuzhnogo Urala II. Ammonity Artinskogo yarusa. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 60:1-271

Belongs to Metalegoceras according to T. B. Leonova 2002

See also Ruzhentsev 1956

Sister taxa: Metalegoceras (Artimetalegoceras), Metalegoceras (Metalegoceras), Metalegoceras ajdaralense, Metalegoceras arcticum, Metalegoceras aricki, Metalegoceras australe, Metalegoceras baylorense, Metalegoceras bosterense, Metalegoceras crenatum, Metalegoceras distale, Metalegoceras evolutum, Metalegoceras gerassimovi, Metalegoceras hudsoni, Metalegoceras kayi, Metalegoceras klimovi, Metalegoceras liratum, Metalegoceras noinskyi, Metalegoceras pamiricum, Metalegoceras platyventrum, Metalegoceras schucherti, Metalegoceras shangraoense, Metalegoceras shyndense, Metalegoceras sogurense, Metalegoceras spirale, Metalegoceras striatum, Metalegoceras sundaicum, Metalegoceras toumanskayae, Metalegoceras tschernyschewi, Metalegoceras wanneri

Type specimen: PIN 317/3241. Its type locality is Aktasty River, locality 10, Aktyubinsk Region, which is in an Artinskian carbonate limestone in the Aktasty Formation of Kazakhstan.

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 23.4

Distribution: found only at Aktasty River, locality 10, Aktyubinsk Region

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