Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Pericyclidae

Full reference: D. Korn, J. Bockwinkel, V. Ebbighausen and C. Klug. 2003. Palaeobiogeographic and evolutionary meaning of an early Late Tournaisian ammonoid fauna from the Tafilalt of Morocco. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 48(1):71-92

Belongs to Pericyclus according to D. Korn et al. 2003

Sister taxa: Pericyclus (Caenocyclus), Pericyclus (Goniocyclus), Pericyclus (Pericyclus), Pericyclus (Trapezopericyclus), Pericyclus circulus, Pericyclus intercisus, Pericyclus princeps, Pericyclus tortuosus, Pericyclus trochus

Type specimen: MfN MB.C.3962, a shell. Its type locality is Ksar Bouhamed B, Taouz, Oued Znaigui Formation, Tafilalt, which is in a Tournaisian basinal (siliciclastic) mudstone in the Oued Znaigui Formation of Morocco.

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 8.44

Distribution: found only at Ksar Bouhamed B, Taouz, Oued Znaigui Formation, Tafilalt

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