Umbetoceras karsaklense 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 Umbetoceras according to V. E. Ruzhentsev and M. F. Bogoslovskaya 1978

Sister taxa: Umbetoceras aravanense, Umbetoceras kuruilicum, Umbetoceras uskalykense

Type specimen: PIN 455/47806, a shell. Its type locality is Bol. Karsakly Creek, Mal. Suren' River, Sample 5, Southern Urals, Bashkortostan, which is in a Kinderscoutian offshore shelf carbonate in the Russian Federation.

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 14.5

Distribution: found only at Bol. Karsakly Creek, Mal. Suren' River, Sample 5, Southern Urals, Bashkortostan

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