ammonites
Metalegoceras hudsoni Miller and Furnish 1957 (ammonite)

Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Metalegoceratidae

Full reference: A. K. Miller and W. M. Furnish. 1957. Permian ammonoids from southern Arabia. Journal of Paleontology 31:1043-1051

Belongs to Metalegoceras according to A. K. Miller and W. M. Furnish 1957

Sister taxa: Metalegoceras (Artimetalegoceras), Metalegoceras (Metalegoceras), Metalegoceras ajdaralense, Metalegoceras arcticum, Metalegoceras aricki, Metalegoceras australe, Metalegoceras baylorense, Metalegoceras crenatum, Metalegoceras evolutum, 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

Type specimen: SUI 5994. Its type locality is Haushi, Lower Half of Section, which is in a Sakmarian shallow subtidal limestone in the Saiwan Formation of Oman.

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Average measurements (in mm): shell width 27.0, shell diameter 38.0