Cephalopoda - Ammonoida - Paragastrioceratidae
Full reference: A. K. Miller and W. M. Furnish. 1940. Permian ammonoids of the Guadalupe Mountain region and adjacent area. Geological Society of America Special Paper 26:1-242
Belongs to Strigogoniatites according to T. B. Leonova 2002
See also Miller and Furnish 1940
Sister taxa: Strigogoniatites anfuensis, Strigogoniatites angulatus, Strigogoniatites changningensis, Strigogoniatites hubeiensis, Strigogoniatites kingi, Strigogoniatites liuchowensis, Strigogoniatites nodosus, Strigogoniatites umbilicatus
Type specimen: Its type locality is USGS 7663, Patterson Hills, Guadalupe Mountains, which is in a Capitanian slope rudstone in the Bell Canyon Formation of Texas
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 25.4
Distribution:
• Permian of United States (3: Texas collections)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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