Peripetoceras ozarkense Gordon 1964 (mollusk)

Cephalopoda - Nautilida - Liroceratidae

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

Belongs to Peripetoceras according to D. Korn and A. Ghaderi 2025

See also Gordon 1964

Sister taxa: Peripetoceras asselense, Peripetoceras bridgeportense, Peripetoceras brouweri, Peripetoceras burovi, Peripetoceras cautum, Peripetoceras comploji, Peripetoceras dubium, Peripetoceras fischeri, Peripetoceras freieslebeni, Peripetoceras gigas, Peripetoceras globatoides, Peripetoceras ideliense, Peripetoceras kummeli, Peripetoceras milleri, Peripetoceras parum, Peripetoceras tormentum, Peripetoceras umbilicatum, Peripetoceras wanneri, Peripetoceras wewokense, Peripetoceras whitei

Type specimen: USNM 119704, a shell. Its type locality is USGS 3641A green, south of Morrow, which is in a Brigantian carbonate limestone in the Fayetteville Formation of Arkansas.

Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 58.5

Distribution: found only at USGS 3641A green, south of Morrow

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