Uralyroceras angustum Ruzhentsev and Bogoslovskaya 1971 (ammonite)

Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Neoglyphioceratidae

Alternative combination: Pachylyroceras angustum

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 Uralyroceras according to D. Korn and A. L. Titus 2015

See also Ruzhentsev and Bogoslovskaya 1971

Sister taxa: Uralyroceras arquatum, Uralyroceras consequens, Uralyroceras constrictum, Uralyroceras esini, Uralyroceras hyatti

Type specimen: PIN 455/36125, a shell. Its type locality is Dombar Hills, sample 6, which is in a Brigantian carbonate limestone in Kazakhstan.

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 21.7

Distribution: found only at Dombar Hills, sample 6

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