Maccoyoceras pentagonum Korn et al. 2022 (mollusk)

Cephalopoda - Nautilida - Trigonoceratidae

Full reference: D. Korn, L. Y. Miao, and J. Bockwinkel. 2022. The nautiloids from the Early Carboniferous Dalle à Merocanites of Timimoun, western Algeria. European Journal of Taxonomy 789:104-129

Belongs to Maccoyoceras according to D. Korn et al. 2022

Sister taxa: Maccoyoceras discoidale, Maccoyoceras discors, Maccoyoceras leveilleanum, Maccoyoceras maccoyi, Maccoyoceras wrightii

Type specimen: MfN MB.C.30378.1, a shell. Its type locality is TIM-C7, Sebkha de Timimoun, which is in a Chadian carbonate limestone in the Argiles de Timimoun Inférieur Formation of Algeria.

Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 47.0

Distribution: found only at TIM-C7, Sebkha de Timimoun

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