Diagnoza

Conch widely umbilicate; delicately ornamented with striae that bend forward rather high on the flanks into a broad lingua with weak spiral striae, feebly crenulated; the hyponomic sinus moderately deep; thin umbilical plications, sometimes very close and thread-like

Porównanie

From Reticuloceras coronatum and R. samlesburyense differs in more pronounced spiral striae on the lingua.

Autekologia

Występowanie geograficzne

Great Britain (Yorkshire, Lancashire, Staffordshire), Belgium (Liège), Germany (Rhenish Slate Mts.), and Poland (Lublin Coal Basin) 

Zasięg czasowy

Carboniferous; Bashkirian (H2c - R1a4)

Materiały muzealne

Literatura

Bisat, W.S. & Hudson, R.G.S. 1943. The lower Reticuloceras (R1) goniatite succession in the Namurian of the North of England. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society 24 (6): 383-440.

Dzik, J. 1997. Emergence and succession of Carboniferous conodont and ammonoid communities in the Polish part of the Variscan sea. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 42, 57-170