Dzhaprakoceras paracatena Riley 1996 (ammonite)

Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Maxigoniatitidae

Full reference: N. J. Riley. 1996. Mid-Dinantian ammonoids from the Craven Basin, northwest England. Special papers in Palaeontology 53:1-87

Belongs to Dzhaprakoceras according to V. Ebbighausen et al. 2010

See also Riley 1996

Sister taxa: Dzhaprakoceras amplum, Dzhaprakoceras angustum, Dzhaprakoceras arkansanum, Dzhaprakoceras belcourtense, Dzhaprakoceras biconvexum, Dzhaprakoceras catena, Dzhaprakoceras chermnykhi, Dzhaprakoceras crassum, Dzhaprakoceras deflexum, Dzhaprakoceras difficile, Dzhaprakoceras djaprakense, Dzhaprakoceras duponti, Dzhaprakoceras dzhazairense, Dzhaprakoceras flexiforme, Dzhaprakoceras flexum, Dzhaprakoceras glabrum, Dzhaprakoceras gordoni, Dzhaprakoceras gracile, Dzhaprakoceras hibernicum, Dzhaprakoceras hispanicum, Dzhaprakoceras humile, Dzhaprakoceras improcerum, Dzhaprakoceras kokdzharense, Dzhaprakoceras latilobatum, Dzhaprakoceras levis, Dzhaprakoceras narynense, Dzhaprakoceras planum, Dzhaprakoceras procerum, Dzhaprakoceras pseudoparallelum, Dzhaprakoceras punctum, Dzhaprakoceras quantulum, Dzhaprakoceras shabyrense, Dzhaprakoceras sonkulica, Dzhaprakoceras sonkulicum, Dzhaprakoceras subglobosum, Dzhaprakoceras subquadratum, Dzhaprakoceras subtile, Dzhaprakoceras subtruncatum, Dzhaprakoceras tianshanicus, Dzhaprakoceras vergum

Type specimen: LZA 9391, a shell. Its type locality is Bellman Quarry, south side, temporary exposure (1979) in a sewer trench, which is in a Chadian marine mudstone in the Hodder Mudstone Formation of the United Kingdom.

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Bellman Quarry, south side, temporary exposure (1979) in a sewer trench

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