Agathiceras contractum Plummer and Scott 1937 (ammonite)

Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Agathiceratidae

Full reference: F. B. Plummer and G. Scott. 1937. Upper Paleozoic ammonites in Texas. The University of Texas Bulletin 3701:1-516

Belongs to Agathiceras according to T. B. Leonova 2002

See also Plummer and Scott 1937

Sister taxa: Agathiceras (Agathiceras), Agathiceras anceps, Agathiceras applanatum, Agathiceras applini, Agathiceras brouweri, Agathiceras broweri, Agathiceras ciscoense, Agathiceras divisum, Agathiceras frechi, 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 Four miles south of Electra, which is in an Artinskian marine siliciclastic in the Valera Shale Formation of Texas

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 18.0

Distribution: found only at Four miles south of Electra

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