Zephyroceras girtyanus Ruzhentsev and Bogoslovskaya 1971

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

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