Margoceras boreale Borissenkov 2020 (ammonite)

Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Paragastrioceratidae

Full reference: K. V. Borissenkov. 2020. New data on Cisuralian ammonoids of Pay-Khoy (Russian Arctic) from the family Paragastrioceratidae Ruzhencev, 1951. Paleontological Journal 54:1178-1188

Belongs to Margoceras according to K. V. Borissenkov 2020

Sister taxa: Margoceras kungurense, Margoceras wandageense

Type specimen: TsNIGR 1/13260, a shell. Its type locality is Middle reaches of the Sayakha river, Pay-Khoy (basal Liuryaga Fm), which is in a Kungurian marine siliciclastic in the Liuryaga Formation of the Russian Federation.

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 49.8

Distribution: found only at Middle reaches of the Sayakha river, Pay-Khoy (basal Liuryaga Fm)

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