Mimagoniatites nearcticus Prosh 1987 (ammonite)

Cephalopoda - Agoniatitida - Mimagoniatitidae

Full reference: E. C. Prosh. 1987. A Lower Devonian ammonoid, Mimagoniatites nearcticus n. sp., from the Canadian arctic. Journal of Paleontology 61:974-981

Belongs to Mimagoniatites according to D. Korn and C. Klug 2002

See also Prosh 1987

Sister taxa: Mimagoniatites angulostriatus, Mimagoniatites bohemicus, Mimagoniatites erbeni, Mimagoniatites fecundus, Mimagoniatites janus, Mimagoniatites kolymensis, Mimagoniatites tabuliformis, Mimagoniatites tenuicostatus

Type specimen: GSC 81047, a shell. Its type locality is Stream on south side of Young Island, which is in an Emsian carbonate lime mudstone in the Disappointment Bay Formation of Canada.

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Stream on south side of Young Island

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