Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Metalegoceratidae
Alternative combination: Asianites sogurensis
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 rotundatum, Metalegoceras schucherti, Metalegoceras shangraoense, Metalegoceras shyndense, Metalegoceras spirale, Metalegoceras striatum, Metalegoceras sundaicum, Metalegoceras toumanskayae, Metalegoceras tschernyschewi, Metalegoceras wanneri
Subtaxa: Metalegoceras sogurense razumowskajae
Type specimen: Its type locality is Sogur-Say River, Tabantal basin, Aktyubinsk region, which is in an Artinskian marine conglomerate in the Baigendzhin Formation of Kazakhstan
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 34.0
Distribution:
• Permian of Kazakhstan (4 collections), the Russian Federation (3)
Total: 7 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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