Discoclymenia orientalis Korn et al. 2016 (ammonite)

Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Posttornoceratidae

Full reference: D. Korn, K. Bartzsch, and D. Weyer. 2016. The last representatives of the late Famennian posttornoceratid ammonoids in Central Europe. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 281:183-200

Belongs to Discoclymenia according to D. Korn et al. 2016

Sister taxa: Discoclymenia cucullata, Goniatites hercynicus, Goniatites lenticularis

Type specimen: PIN 1447/221, a shell. Its type locality is Kiya River source, bed 7, which is in a Famennian carbonate limestone in Kazakhstan.

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Kiya River source, bed 7

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