Popanoceras sintasense Ruzhentsev 1956 (ammonite)

Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Popanoceratidae

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 Popanoceras according to T. B. Leonova 2002

See also Ruzhentsev 1956

Sister taxa: Popanoceras annae, Popanoceras congregale, Popanoceras hanieli, Popanoceras haugi, Popanoceras kueichowense, Popanoceras polypetale, Popanoceras simplex, Popanoceras sobolewskyanum, Popanoceras toumanskayae, Popanoceras tschernowi, Popanoceras walcotti, Popanoceras ziyunense, Pamiropopanoceras meridionale, Pamiropopanoceras corpulentum, Pamiropopanoceras indoaustralicum

Type specimen: PIN 317/11572. Its type locality is Sintasa River, Kialy-Burtya basin, Aktobe Region, which is in an Artinskian marine sandstone in the Aktasty Formation of Kazakhstan.

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 17.8

Distribution: found only at Sintasa River, Kialy-Burtya basin, Aktobe Region

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