Homoceras alveatum Ruzhentsev and Bogoslovskaya 1978 (ammonite)

Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Homoceratidae

Full reference: V. E. Ruzhentsev and M. F. Bogoslovskaya. 1978. Namyurskii etap v evolyutsii ammonoidyey - Namurian stage, evolution of ammonoids. Trudyi paleontologicheskovo instituta 167:1-338

Belongs to Homoceras according to V. E. Ruzhentsev and M. F. Bogoslovskaya 1978

Sister taxa: Homoceras asselicum, Homoceras coronatum, Homoceras haugi, Homoceras pamiricum, Homoceras schartymense, Homoceras subalveatum

Type specimen: PIN 455/38982, a shell. Its type locality is Sholak-Say Canyon, Sample 4, Southern Urals, Aktyubin Region, which is in a Chokierian offshore shelf carbonate in Kazakhstan.

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 18.2

Distribution: found only at Sholak-Say Canyon, Sample 4, Southern Urals, Aktyubin Region

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