Cephalopoda - Agoniatitida - Mimoceratidae
Synonyms: Ammonites compressus Beyrich 1837, Goniatites ambigena Barrande 1865
Belongs to Gyroceratites according to D. Korn and C. Klug 2002
See also Bogoslovsky 1969 and Chlupac and Turek 1983
Sister taxa: Gyroceratites angulatus, Gyroceratites armoricanus, Gyroceratites circularis, Gyroceratites dorsolamellatus, Gyroceratites glaber, Gyroceratites heinricherbeni, Gyroceratites laevis, Gyroceratites pallantianus
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 24.1
Distribution:
• Devonian of China (2 collections), the Czech Republic (19), Morocco (2), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (1)
Total: 25 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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