Ectenolites primus Flower 1964 (mollusk)

Cephalopoda - Ellesmerocerida - Ellesmeroceratidae

Full reference: R. H. Flower. 1964. The Nautiloid Order Ellesmeroceratida (Cephalopoda). State Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Memoir 12:234 p.

Belongs to Ectenolites according to R. H. Flower 1964

Sister taxa: Ectenolites clelandi, Ectenolites extensus, Ectenolites sinuatus, Ectenolites subgracilis

Type specimen: RHF 298, a shell. Its type locality is Threadgill Creek section (San Saba Limestone), which is in a Trempealeauan shallow subtidal grainstone in the Wilberns Formation of Texas.

Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Distribution:

• Cambrian of China (2 collections), United States (1: Texas)

Total: 3 collections including 4 occurrences

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