Beyrichoceratoides inflatus Riley 1996 (ammonite)

Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Muensteroceratidae

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

Belongs to Beyrichoceratoides according to N. J. Riley 1996

Sister taxa: Beyrichoceratoides fournieri, Beyrichoceratoides implicatus, Beyrichoceratoides invaginatus, Beyrichoceratoides lunatus, Beyrichoceratoides redesdalensis, Beyrichoceratoides truncatus

Type specimen: Ro 5170, 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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