Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Prionoceratidae
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 Mimimitoceras according to R. T. Becker and P. Zong 2015
Sister taxa: Mimimitoceras geminum, Mimimitoceras hoennense, Mimimitoceras liratum, Mimimitoceras rotersi, Mimimitoceras trizonatum, Mimimitoceras varicosum
Type specimen: PUM 14049, a shell. Its type locality is XZ602, Emuha section, which is in a Famennian carbonate limestone in the Heishantou Formation of China.
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 19.0
Distribution:
• Devonian of China (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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