Prolobites aktubensis Bogoslovsky 1969 (ammonite)

Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Prolobitidae

Full reference: B. I. Bogoslovsky. 1969. Devonskie ammonoidei I. Agoniatitidy. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 124:1-328

Belongs to Prolobites according to B. I. Bogoslovsky 1969

Sister taxa: Prolobites auriformis, Prolobites delphinus, Prolobites ellipticus, Prolobites fabaeformis, Prolobites inops, Prolobites nanus

Type specimen: PIN 1447/1274, a shell. Its type locality is Kara-Dzhar River, west of Sukhinovka, which is in a Famennian carbonate limestone in Kazakhstan.

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 21.0

Distribution:

• Devonian of Kazakhstan (2 collections)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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