Peripetoceras bridgeportense Tucker and Mapes 1978 (mollusk)

Cephalopoda - Nautilida - Liroceratidae

Full reference: J. K. Tucker and R. H. Mapes. 1978. Coiled Nautiloid Cephalopods from the Wolf Mountain Shale (Pennsylvanian), North-Central Texas. Journal of Paleontology 52(3):596-604

Belongs to Peripetoceras according to D. Korn and A. Ghaderi 2025

See also Tucker and Mapes 1978

Sister taxa: Peripetoceras asselense, Peripetoceras brouweri, Peripetoceras burovi, Peripetoceras cautum, Peripetoceras comploji, Peripetoceras dubium, Peripetoceras fischeri, Peripetoceras freieslebeni, Peripetoceras gigas, Peripetoceras globatoides, Peripetoceras ideliense, Peripetoceras kummeli, Peripetoceras milleri, Peripetoceras ozarkense, Peripetoceras parum, Peripetoceras tormentum, Peripetoceras umbilicatum, Peripetoceras wanneri, Peripetoceras wewokense, Peripetoceras whitei

Type specimen: SUI42484. Its type locality is Locality 2, Lake Bridgeport Shale, Wise Co., TX, which is in a Missourian marine shale in the Wolf Mountain Formation of Texas.

Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Distribution:

• Carboniferous of United States (6: Texas collections)

Total: 6 collections including 7 occurrences

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