Reticycloceras girtyi Gordon 1964 (mollusk)

Cephalopoda - Pseudorthocerida - Spyroceratidae

Full reference: M. Gordon. 1964. Carboniferous Cephalopods of Arkansas. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 460:1-322

Belongs to Reticycloceras according to M. Gordon 1964

Sister taxa: Reticycloceras croneisi, Reticycloceras peytonense, Reticycloceras sequoyahense

Type specimen: USNM 119035, a shell. Its type locality is USGS 1487E, Pilot Mountain, which is in a Pendleian marine shale in the Fayetteville Formation of Arkansas.

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

• Carboniferous of United States (3: Arkansas collections)

Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence

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