Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Arcestidae
Full reference: A. A. Shevyrev. 1995. Triassic ammonoids of the northwest Caucasus. Rossiyskaya Akademiya Nauk, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 264:1-174
Belongs to Proarcestes according to A. A. Shevyrev 1995
Sister taxa: Arcestes (Proarcestes) carpenteri, Arcestes (Proarcestes) pacificus, Arcestes (Proarcestes) shastensis, Arcestes (Proarcestes) traski, Arcestes (Proarcestes) whitneyi, Arcestes (Proarcestes) winnemae, Proarcestes ausseeanus, Proarcestes balfouri, Proarcestes barrandei, Proarcestes bicarinatus, Proarcestes boeckhi, Proarcestes bramantei, Proarcestes danai, Proarcestes dittmari, Proarcestes escheri, Proarcestes esinensis, Proarcestes gabbi, Proarcestes gaytani, Proarcestes marcheanus, Proarcestes marcoui, Proarcestes moeschi, Proarcestes mojsisovicsi, Proarcestes nevadanus, Proarcestes pannonicus, Proarcestes planus, Proarcestes reyeri, Proarcestes subtridentinus
Type specimen: PIN 1477/630. Its type locality is Svinyachaya Balka, Goniojuvavites-Pararcestes beds, which is in a Tuvalian marine carbonate in the Babuk Formation of the Russian Federation.
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 52.3
Distribution: found only at Svinyachaya Balka, Goniojuvavites-Pararcestes beds
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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