Cephalopoda - Prolecanitida - Medlicottiidae
Full reference: T. B. Leonova. 1992. Ammonoidea, in Perm' Darvaz-Zaalayskoy zony Pamira: fusulinidy, ammonoidei, stratigrafiya. Rossiyskaya Akademiya Nauk, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 253:110-167
Belongs to Bamyaniceras according to Z. R. Zhou 2017
See also Leonova 1992 and Leonova 2002
Sister taxa: Bamyaniceras australe, Bamyaniceras baranovi, Bamyaniceras bornemani, Bamyaniceras bouyxi, Bamyaniceras darwasi, Bamyaniceras knighti, Bamyaniceras kubergandense, Bamyaniceras loeiense, Bamyaniceras magnum, Bamyaniceras multilobatum, Bamyaniceras nandanense, Bamyaniceras obliquinodosum, Bamyaniceras orientale, Bamyaniceras parasimile, Bamyaniceras polae, Bamyaniceras simile, Bamyaniceras simplex, Bamyaniceras tersum, Bamyaniceras yangchangense
Type specimen: PIN 4240/39. Its type locality is Vozgina River, sample 58/5a, Darvaz Range, which is in an Artinskian carbonate limestone in the Chelamchin Formation of Tajikistan.
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 23.6
Distribution:
• Permian of China (1 collection), Tajikistan (2)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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