Waagenoceras gansuense Liang 1981 (ammonite)

Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Cyclolobidae

Full reference: X. L. Liang. 1981. Early Permian cephalopods from northwestern Gansu and western Nei Mongol. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 20:485-500

Belongs to Waagenoceras according to T. B. Leonova 2010

See also Bogoslovskaya 1990, Leonova 2002 and Liang 1981

Sister taxa: Waagenoceras adrianense, Waagenoceras dieneri, Waagenoceras girtyi, Waagenoceras karpinskyi, Waagenoceras longyanense, Waagenoceras minutum, Waagenoceras mojsisovicsi, Waagenoceras nikitini, Waagenoceras obliquum, Waagenoceras stachei

Type specimen: NIGP 62035. Its type locality is Daqishan, sample Rrf-92, Anbei County, which is in a Wordian marine horizon in the Jiushitan Formation of China.

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 59.5

Distribution: found only at Daqishan, sample Rrf-92, Anbei County

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