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 liratum, Metalegoceras noinskyi, Metalegoceras pamiricum, Metalegoceras platyventrum, Metalegoceras rotundatum, Metalegoceras schucherti, Metalegoceras shangraoense, Metalegoceras shyndense, Metalegoceras sogurense, Metalegoceras spirale, Metalegoceras striatum, Metalegoceras sundaicum, Metalegoceras toumanskayae, Metalegoceras tschernyschewi, Metalegoceras wanneri
Type specimen: PIN 317/3248. Its type locality is Zhil-Tau Hill, Aktyubinsk Region, which is in an Artinskian marine dolomite in the Baigendzhi Formation of Kazakhstan.
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 39.5
Distribution:
• Permian of Kazakhstan (1 collection), the Russian Federation (3)
Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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