Simorthoceras Shimanskiy 1954 (mollusk)

Cephalopoda - Pseudorthocerida - Pseudorthoceratidae

Full reference: V. N. Shimanskiy. 1954. Pryamye nautiloidei i baktritoidei Sakmarskogo i Artinskogo yarusov yuzhnogo Urala. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 44:1-154

Parent taxon: Pseudorthoceratinae according to C. Teichert et al. 1964

See also Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Eifeloceras, Pseudocyrtoceras, Pseudorthoceras

Subtaxa: Simorthoceras gracile

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Type: Simorthoceras gracile

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Nodtei Cape, Sowerbina-Oriocrassatella Beds, Kanin Peninsula (Permian of Russian Federation)

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