Verancoceras ciceroides Ruzhentsev and Bogoslovskaya 1971 (ammonite)

Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Cravenoceratidae

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

Sister taxa: Verancoceras admirabile, Verancoceras tabidum

Type specimen: PIN 455/36129, a shell. Its type locality is Ural River, Verkhnyaya Kardailovka, sample 4, which is in an Arnsbergian carbonate limestone in the Russian Federation.

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 10.6

Distribution: found only at Ural River, Verkhnyaya Kardailovka, sample 4

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