Tectiretites laxus Ruzhentsev and Bogoslovskaya 1978 (ammonite)

Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Reticuloceratidae

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 Tectiretites according to V. E. Ruzhentsev and M. F. Bogoslovskaya 1978

Sister taxa: Tectiretites confinis, Tectiretites hodsoni, Tectiretites juvenilatus, Tectiretites malus, Tectiretites posterus

Type specimen: PIN 455/46420, a shell. Its type locality is Yamashly River, Bol'shaya Suren River, Sample 3, Southern Urals, Bashkortostan, which is in a Kinderscoutian offshore shelf limestone in the Russian Federation.

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 41.4

Distribution: found only at Yamashly River, Bol'shaya Suren River, Sample 3, Southern Urals, Bashkortostan

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