ammonites
Bactrites ultuganensis Shimanskiy 1954 (mollusk)

Cephalopoda - Bactritida - Bactritidae

Full reference: V. N. Shimanskiy. 1954. Pryamye nautiloidei i baktritoidei Sakmarskogo i Artinskogo yarusov yuzhnogo Urala [Straight nautiloids and bactritoids from the Sakmarian and Artinskian of the southern Urals]. Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 44:1-154

Belongs to Bactrites according to V. N. Shimanskiy 1954

Sister taxa: Bactrites bolorensis, Bactrites elcapitanensis, Bactrites gracile, Bactrites mexicanus, Bactrites mirificus, Bactrites sempiternus, Bactrites subconicus

Type specimen: PIN 442/12118. Its type locality is Ultugan-Say Gully, Sterlitamakian, Aktasty River, which is in a Sakmarian marine sandstone in Kazakstan.

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore