Euroceras ellipsoidale Ruzhentsev and Bogoslovskaya 1971 (ammonite)

Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Glaphyritidae

Alternative combination: Neoglaphyrites ellipsoidale

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

See also Nassichuk 1975

Sister taxon: Euroceras nyense

Type specimen: PIN 455/38136, 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.

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 35.2

Distribution: found only at Sholak-Say Canyon, Sample 3, Southern Urals, Aktyubin Region

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