Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Metalegoceratidae

Alternative combination: Parametalegoceras striatum

Full reference: C. Teichert. 1942. Permian ammonoids from Western Australia. Journal of Paleontology 16(2):221-232

Belongs to Metalegoceras according to W. M. Furnish et al. 2009

Sister taxa: Metalegoceras (Artimetalegoceras), Metalegoceras (Metalegoceras), 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 sundaicum, Metalegoceras toumanskayae, Metalegoceras tschernyschewi

Type specimen: UWA 20508, a shell. Its type locality is Nura Nura Ridge, which is in a Sakmarian coastal siliciclastic in the Poole Formation of Australia.

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Average measurements (in mm): shell width 10.5, shell diameter 16.5