Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Metalegoceratidae
Full reference: T. B. Leonova. 1989. Taxonomic names, in Rannepermskie ammonoidei Yugo-Vostochnogo Pamira. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 235:1-198
Belongs to Metalegoceras according to T. B. Leonova 2002
See also Leonova 1989
Sister taxa: Metalegoceras (Artimetalegoceras), Metalegoceras (Metalegoceras), Metalegoceras ajdaralense, Metalegoceras arcticum, Metalegoceras aricki, Metalegoceras australe, Metalegoceras baylorense, Metalegoceras bosterense, Metalegoceras crenatum, Metalegoceras distale, Metalegoceras evolutum, Metalegoceras gerassimovi, Metalegoceras hudsoni, Metalegoceras kayi, Metalegoceras klimovi, Metalegoceras liratum, Metalegoceras noinskyi, Metalegoceras platyventrum, Metalegoceras rotundatum, Metalegoceras schucherti, Metalegoceras shangraoense, Metalegoceras shyndense, Metalegoceras sogurense, Metalegoceras spirale, Metalegoceras striatum, Metalegoceras sundaicum, Metalegoceras toumanskayae, Metalegoceras tschernyschewi, Metalegoceras wanneri
Type specimen: PIN 3591/282, a shell. Its type locality is Shindy River, bed 4, Pamir Mountains, which is in a Kungurian marine horizon in the Kochusu Formation of Tajikistan.
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 35.8
Distribution:
• Permian of Tajikistan (7 collections)
Total: 7 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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