Chutoceras manticoides Becker and House 2000 (ammonite)

Cephalopoda - Agoniatitida - Acanthoclymeniidae

Alternative combination: Uchtites manticoides

Full reference: R. T. Becker and M. R. House. 2000. Taxonomic names, in Revision of ammonoid biostratigraphy in the Frasnian (Upper Devonian) of the Southern Timan (northeast Russian Platform). Acta Geologica Polonica 50:67-97

Belongs to Chutoceras according to M. R. House and W. T. Kirchgasser 2008

See also Becker and House 2000 and Korn and Klug 2002

Sister taxon: Chutoceras nundaium

Type specimen: MfN MB.C.2165, a shell. Its type locality is Chut River, outcrop 7, unit 5, which is in a Frasnian carbonate limestone in the Domanik Formation of the Russian Federation.

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 93.0

Distribution: found only at Chut River, outcrop 7, unit 5

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