Shumardites confessus Ruzhentsev 1939 (ammonite)

Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Shumarditidae

Belongs to Shumardites according to V. E. Ruzhentsev 1950

Sister taxa: Shumardites aktubensis, Shumardites cuyleri, Shumardites librovitchi, Shumardites simondsi, Shumardites umbilicatus

Type specimen: PIN 320/4743, a shell. Its type locality is Ural river, northwest of Ilinskoe, bed 18, which is in a Gzhelian marine siliciclastic in the Russian Federation.

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 15.3

Distribution:

• Carboniferous of Kazakhstan (1 collection), the Russian Federation (3)

Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence

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