Bugunzhites dagysi Shevyrev 1995 (ceratite)

Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Ceratitidae

Full reference: A. A. Shevyrev. 1995. Triassic ammonoids of the northwest Caucasus. Rossiyskaya Akademiya Nauk, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 264:1-174

Belongs to Bugunzhites according to A. A. Shevyrev 1995

Sister taxa: Bugunzhites afghanicus, Bugunzhites rosseti, Bugunzhites zaheri

Type specimen: PIN 1477/619. Its type locality is Bugunzha River, Bugunzhites-Parasturia beds, which is in a Longobardian marine carbonate in the Babuk Formation of the Russian Federation.

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 46.5

Distribution: found only at Bugunzha River, Bugunzhites-Parasturia beds

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