Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Metalegoceratidae
Full reference: F. B. Plummer and G. Scott. 1937. Upper Paleozoic ammonites in Texas. The University of Texas Bulletin 3701:1-516
Belongs to Metalegoceras according to T. B. Leonova 2002
See also Plummer and Scott 1937
Sister taxa: Metalegoceras (Artimetalegoceras), Metalegoceras (Metalegoceras), Metalegoceras ajdaralense, Metalegoceras arcticum, 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 pamiricum, 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: Its type locality is Lenox Hills, base of escarpment north of Wedin's ranch, which is in a Sakmarian carbonate limestone in the Lenox Hills Formation of Texas
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 32.0
Distribution: found only at Lenox Hills, base of escarpment north of Wedin's ranch
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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