Hoffmannia fisheri Plummer and Scott 1937 (ammonite)

Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Palermoceratidae

Full reference: F. B. Plummer and G. Scott. 1937. Upper Paleozoic ammonites in Texas. The University of Texas Bulletin 3701:1-516

Belongs to Hoffmannia according to F. B. Plummer and G. Scott 1937

Sister taxa: Palermoceras burgensis, Palermoceras hoffmanni, Hoffmannia hoffmanni

Type specimen: Its type locality is B.E.G55-T-4, Terry's Church, east of Casey's Last Chance Well, which is in a Capitanian carbonate marl in the Bell Canyon Formation of Texas.

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 8.50

Distribution: found only at B.E.G. 55-T-4, Terry's Church, east of Casey's Last Chance Well

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