Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Pericyclidae
Full reference: N. J. Riley. 1996. Mid-Dinantian ammonoids from the Craven Basin, northwest England. Special papers in Palaeontology 53:1-87
Belongs to Ammonellipsites according to V. Ebbighausen et al. 2010
See also Riley 1996 and Tilsley and Korn 2009
Sister taxa: Ammonellipsites asiaticus, Ammonellipsites conradae, Ammonellipsites djaprakensis, Ammonellipsites doohylensis, Ammonellipsites funatus, Ammonellipsites grandicostatus, Ammonellipsites hauchecornei, Ammonellipsites kayseri, Ammonellipsites kochi, Ammonellipsites menchikoffi, Ammonellipsites multicostatus, Ammonellipsites nikitini, Ammonellipsites pareyni, Ammonellipsites princeps, Ammonellipsites serus, Ammonellipsites sguilmensis, Ammonellipsites subglaber
Type specimen: BGS Ro 864, a shell. Its type locality is Bellman Quarry, south side, temporary exposure (1979) in a sewer trench, which is in a Chadian marine mudstone in the Hodder Mudstone Formation of the United Kingdom.
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Carboniferous of the United Kingdom (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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