''Metalegoceras'' is an
extinct
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genus of marine cephalopods belonging to the family
Schistoceratidae.
Species
* ''
Metalegoceras ajdaralense''
* ''
Metalegoceras arcticum''
* ''
Metalegoceras aricki''
* ''
Metalegoceras australe''
* ''
Metalegoceras baylorense''
* ''
Metalegoceras crenatum''
* ''
Metalegoceras evolutum''
* ''
Metalegoceras hudsoni''
* ''
Metalegoceras kayi''
* ''
Metalegoceras klimovi''
* ''
Metalegoceras liratum''
* ''
Metalegoceras pamiricum''
* ''
Metalegoceras platyventrum''
* ''
Metalegoceras rotundatum''
* ''
Metalegoceras schucherti''
* ''
Metalegoceras shangraoense''
* ''
Metalegoceras shyndense''
* ''
Metalegoceras sogurense''
* ''
Metalegoceras spirale''
* ''
Metalegoceras striatum''
* ''
Metalegoceras sundaicum''
* ''
Metalegoceras toumanskayae''
* ''
Metalegoceras tschernyschewi''
Distribution
This species have been found in the Permian of
Australia
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Canada
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,
China
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, East
Timor
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Indonesia
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Kazakhstan
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Malaysia
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Oman
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Russia
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and
United States
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References
The Paleobiology Database* F. A. H . W . De Marez Ovens
On Paralegoceras sundaicum Haniel and related forms (1933)
External links
The Fossil Forum
Goniatitida genera
Neoicoceratoidea
Permian animals of Asia
Paleozoic life of Nunavut
Paleozoic life of Yukon
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