Cephalopoda - Clymeniida - Cyrtoclymeniidae
Full reference: P. Zong, R. T. Becker, and X. P. Ma. 2015. Upper Devonian (Famennian) and Lower Carboniferous (Tournaisian) ammonoids from western Junggar, Xinjiang, northwestern China - stratigraphy, taxonomy and palaeobiogeography. Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 95:159-202
Belongs to Protactoclymenia according to P. Zong et al. 2015
Sister taxa: Protactoclymenia giganta, Protactoclymenia parallela
Type specimen: PUM 14010, a shell. Its type locality is XZ548, Hebukehe-E section, which is in a Famennian carbonate limestone in the Hongguleleng Formation of China.
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 99.4
Distribution:
• Devonian of China (5 collections)
Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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