Ponticeras altaicum Bogoslovsky 1958 (ammonite)

Cephalopoda - Agoniatitida - Acanthoclymeniidae

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

See also Bogoslovsky 1969

Sister taxa: Ponticeras acutilobatum, Ponticeras aequabilis, Ponticeras auritum, Ponticeras bisulcatum, Ponticeras discoidale, Ponticeras domanicense, Ponticeras kayseri, Ponticeras keyserlingi, Ponticeras lebedeffi, Ponticeras orientale, Ponticeras perlatum, Ponticeras platystoma, Ponticeras prumiense, Ponticeras regale, Ponticeras regulare, Ponticeras tschernyschewi, Ponticeras uchtense, Ponticeras uralicum, Ponticeras wildungense

Type specimen: Its type locality is Ridge northeast of Nikolaevskoe mine, which is in a Frasnian carbonate limestone in Kazakhstan

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 18.7

Distribution: found only at Ridge northeast of Nikolaevskoe mine

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