Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Cravenoceratidae
Full reference: M. Gordon. 1964. Carboniferous Cephalopods of Arkansas. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 460:1-322
Belongs to Cravenoceras according to V. E. Ruzhentsev and M. F. Bogoslovskaya 1971
See also Gordon 1964
Sister taxa: Cravenoceras (Richardsonites), Cravenoceras acutum, Cravenoceras africanum, Cravenoceras arcticum, Cravenoceras beleutense, Cravenoceras berkhi, Cravenoceras crassum, Cravenoceras insolitum, Cravenoceras kingi, Cravenoceras kullatinense, Cravenoceras leion, Cravenoceras leionoides, Cravenoceras malhamense, Cravenoceras originale, Cravenoceras petrenkoi, Cravenoceras schaelkense, Cravenoceras scoticum, Cravenoceras shimanskyi, Cravenoceras subitum, Cravenoceras tonksi, Cravenoceras tozeri, Cravenoceras vetum
Type specimen: USNM 119526, a shell. Its type locality is USGS 15064, Pilot Mountain, which is in a Pendleian marine shale in the Fayetteville Formation of Arkansas.
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 13.8
Distribution:
• Carboniferous of Kazakhstan (1 collection), the Russian Federation (2), United States (1: Arkansas)
Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence
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