ammonites
Paraheritschioides fergusonensis Stevens 2010 (horn coral)

Anthozoa - Stauriida - Kleopatrinidae

Full reference: C. H. Stevens. 2010. New Early Permian colonial rugose corals from the central Cordilleran miogeocline, U.S.A. Journal of Paleontology 84(3):529-537

Belongs to Paraheritschioides according to C. H. Stevens 2010

Sister taxa: Paraheritschioides bagleyae, Paraheritschioides californiense, Paraheritschioides densicolumellus, Paraheritschioides garvinae, Paraheritschioides grandis, Paraheritschioides nevadaensis, Paraheritschioides stevensi, Paraheritschioides wickenae

Type specimen: USNM 531327. Its type locality is SJS-601, Ferguson Mountain, which is in an Artinskian open shallow subtidal limestone in the Arcturus Formation of Nevada.

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder