Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Marathonitidae
Alternative combination: Stacheoceras (Marathonites) vidriensis
Full reference: E. Böse. 1919. The Permo-Carboniferous ammonoids of the Glass Mountains, west Texas, and their stratigraphic significance. Texas Bureau of Economic Geology Bulletin 1762:1-241
Belongs to Marathonites according to M. F. Bogoslovskaya 1990
See also Böse 1919 and Plummer and Scott 1937
Sister taxa: Marathonites (Marathonites), Marathonites guangdongensis, Marathonites jpsmithi, Marathonites moorei, Marathonites uralensis
Type specimen: Its type locality is Wolf Camp, Glass Mountains, which is in a Gzhelian carbonate limestone in the Gaptank Formation of Texas
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 10.7
Distribution:
• Carboniferous of United States (2: Texas collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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