Metalegoceras ajdaralense

 

Classification

Phylum : Mollusca Linnaeus 1758

Class : Cephalopoda Cuvier 1797

Subclass : Ammonoidea Haeckel 1866

Order : Goniatitida Hyatt 1884

Suborder : Goniatitina Hyatt 1884

Superfamily : Neoicoceratoidea Hyatt 1900

Family : Metalegoceratidae Plummer and Scott 1937

Subfamily : Metalegoceratinae Plummer and Scott 1937

Genus : Metalegoceras Schindewolf 1931

Species : ajdaralense (Ruzhencev 1933)

 

 

Nomenclatural history

Ruzhencev 1933 : Asianites ajdaralensis

Voinova 1934 : Dodecalegoceras sunidukiensis

Ruzhencev 1956 : Metalegoceras ajdaralense

Leonova 2002 : Metalegoceras ajdaralense

Primary description

Ruzhentsev, V. E., 1933 - On some Lower Permian ammonoids from the Aktobe District.

 

Age : Artinskian - Cisuralian - Lower Permian

Locality : Aktyubinsk area - South Ural - Kazakhstan

Size : 71 mm