Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Girtyoceratidae
Full reference: V. E. Ruzhentsev and M. F. Bogoslovskaya. 1971. Namurskiy etap v evolyutsii ammonoidey. Rannenamyurskie ammonoidei. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 133:1-382
Belongs to Eumorphoceras according to V. E. Ruzhentsev and M. F. Bogoslovskaya 1971
Sister taxa: Eumorphoceras angustum, Eumorphoceras bisati, Eumorphoceras bisulcatum, Eumorphoceras brevornatum, Eumorphoceras chungweiense, Eumorphoceras girtyi, Eumorphoceras goddardensis, Eumorphoceras hudsoni, Eumorphoceras involutum, Eumorphoceras medusa, Eumorphoceras milleri, Eumorphoceras ornatissimum, Eumorphoceras paucinodum, Eumorphoceras pseudobilingue, Eumorphoceras pseudocoronula, Eumorphoceras richardsoni, Eumorphoceras rostratum, Eumorphoceras rota, Eumorphoceras rotuliforme, Eumorphoceras stubblefieldi, Eumorphoceras tornquisti, Eumorphoceras tumulosum
Type specimen: PIN 455/6720, a shell. Its type locality is Ural River, Verkhnyaya Kardailovka, sample 3, which is in an Arnsbergian carbonate limestone in the Russian Federation.
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 17.0
Distribution: found only at Ural River, Verkhnyaya Kardailovka, sample 3
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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