Platygoniatites nudus Ruzhentsev and Bogoslovskaya 1971 (ammonite)

Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Delepinoceratidae

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 Platygoniatites according to V. E. Ruzhentsev and M. F. Bogoslovskaya 1971

Sister taxa: Platygoniatites molaris, Platygoniatites omniliratus, Platygoniatites rhanemensis, Platygoniatites superior

Type specimen: PIN 455/10278, a shell. Its type locality is Zhaksy-Kargala River, Sample 1, which is in a Pendleian carbonate limestone in Kazakhstan.

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 44.0

Distribution: found only at Zhaksy-Kargala River, Sample 1

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