Syngastrioceras dronovi Ruzhentsev and Bogoslovskaya 1978 (ammonite)

Cephalopoda - Ammonoida - Glaphyritidae

Full reference: V. E. Ruzhentsev and M. F. Bogoslovskaya. 1978. Namyurskii etap v evolyutsii ammonoidyey - Namurian stage, evolution of ammonoids. Trudyi paleontologicheskovo instituta 167:1-338

Belongs to Syngastrioceras according to V. E. Ruzhentsev and M. F. Bogoslovskaya 1978

Sister taxa: Syngastrioceras aktubense, Syngastrioceras cadiconiforme, Syngastrioceras clinei, Syngastrioceras constrictum, Syngastrioceras europaeum, Syngastrioceras glaphyritoides, Syngastrioceras globosum, Syngastrioceras globulosum, Syngastrioceras laxumbilicale, Syngastrioceras oblatum, Syngastrioceras orientale, Syngastrioceras parasupinum, Syngastrioceras pseudomalhamense, Syngastrioceras scotti, Syngastrioceras sholakensis, Syngastrioceras smithwickense, Syngastrioceras suborientale, Syngastrioceras supinum, Syngastrioceras ukrainicus, Syngastrioceras websteri, Neogastrioceras arcticum, Pseudoglaphyrites kueichowensis

Type specimen: PIN 2993/12, a shell. Its type locality is Vostochniy Pshart River, Pamir Mts., which is in an Alportian offshore shelf carbonate in Tajikistan.

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 31.3

Distribution: found only at Vostochniy Pshart River, Pamir Mts.

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