Sporadoceras impressum Becker and Zong 2015 (ammonite)

Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Sporadoceratidae

Full reference: R. T. Becker and P. Zong. 2015. Taxonomic names, in 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 Sporadoceras according to R. T. Becker and P. Zong 2015

Sister taxa: Sporadoceras (Sporadoceras), Sporadoceras conforme, Sporadoceras equalis, Sporadoceras globulosum, Sporadoceras muensteri

Type specimen: PUM 14040, a shell. Its type locality is XZ448, Bulongguoer 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 24.9

Distribution: found only at XZ448, Bulongguoer section

Show more details


Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.


Click image to enlarge. Click to access iDigBio record.