Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Glaphyritidae
Alternative combination: Richardsonites girtyanus
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 Zephyroceras according to A. L. Titus 2000
See also Ruzhentsev and Bogoslovskaya 1971
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: PIN 455/36437, a shell. Its type locality is Sholak-Say Canyon, Sample 3, Southern Urals, Aktyubin Region, which is in an Arnsbergian offshore shelf carbonate in Kazakhstan.
Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 58.7
Distribution: found only at Sholak-Say Canyon, Sample 3, Southern Urals, Aktyubin Region
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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