Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Metalegoceratidae

Full reference: T. B. Leonova and O. P. Shilovsky. 2007. Evolution of the Permian family Spirolegoceratidae (Goniatitida, Ammonoidea). Paleontological Journal 41(1):28-38

Belongs to Sverdrupites according to T. B. Leonova and O. P. Shilovsky 2007

Sister taxa: Sverdrupites amundseni, Sverdrupites baraiensis, Sverdrupites harkeri, Sverdrupites kosynskyi, Pseudosverdrupites budnikovi

Type specimen: PIN 3638/164, a shell. Its type locality is Cape Ratmanov, Collection 13823-2, Kara Sea, which is in a Roadian marine siliciclastic in the Gerkinskaya Formation of the Russian Federation.

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Average measurements (in mm): shell width 17.7, shell diameter 34.1