Stacheoceras gilliamense Böse 1919 (ammonite)

Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Vidrioceratidae

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 Stacheoceras according to T. B. Leonova 2002

See also Bogoslovskaya 1990, Böse 1919 and Plummer and Scott 1937

Sister taxa: Stacheoceras (Neostacheoceras), Stacheoceras andrussowi, Stacheoceras antiquum, Stacheoceras arthaberi, Stacheoceras beishanense, Stacheoceras boesei, Stacheoceras borissiaki, Stacheoceras caucasicus, Stacheoceras chaotianense, Stacheoceras collignoni, Stacheoceras darae, Stacheoceras discoidale, Stacheoceras gaudryi, Stacheoceras gemmellaroi, Stacheoceras giganteum, Stacheoceras globulinum, Stacheoceras gordoni, Stacheoceras iwaizakiense, Stacheoceras karpinskyi, Stacheoceras lijiangense, Stacheoceras mediterraneum, Stacheoceras megamultidentatum, Stacheoceras mirificum, Stacheoceras oblatum, Stacheoceras orientale, Stacheoceras pengboense, Stacheoceras priscum, Stacheoceras quadridens, Stacheoceras raridentatum, Stacheoceras rothi, Stacheoceras sexlobatum, Stacheoceras shaiwaense, Stacheoceras sosiense, Stacheoceras tepense, Stacheoceras tietzei, Stacheoceras timorense, Stacheoceras toumanskayae, Stacheoceras tschernyschewi, Stacheoceras vogti, Stacheoceras xiukangense, Stacheoceras yajiangense, Parastacheoceras bidentatus

Type specimen: Its type locality is Near junction of Road and Gilliam canyons, which is in a Roadian carbonate limestone in the Road Canyon Formation of Texas

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 10.2

Distribution: found only at Near junction of Road and Gilliam canyons

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