Sellanarcestes perfectus Chlupac and Turek 1983 (ammonite)

Cephalopoda - Agoniatitida - Anarcestidae

Full reference: I. Chlupac and V. Turek. 1983. Devonian goniatites from the Barrandian area, Czechoslovakia. Rozpravy Ustredniho Ustavu Geologickeho 46:1-159

Belongs to Sellanarcestes according to D. Korn and C. Klug 2002

See also Chlupac and Turek 1983

Sister taxa: Sellanarcestes certus, Sellanarcestes cognatus, Sellanarcestes crassior, Sellanarcestes ebbighauseni, Sellanarcestes eos, Sellanarcestes neglectus, Sellanarcestes solus, Sellanarcestes tenuior, Sellanarcestes wenkenbachi

Type specimen: CM L19326, a shell. Its type locality is Praha-Hlubocepy (upper Trebotov limestone, Dalejan), which is in an Emsian carbonate limestone in the Trebotov Formation of the Czech Republic.

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 47.6

Distribution:

• Devonian of the Czech Republic (5 collections)

Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence

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