Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Dzhulfitidae
Full reference: A. A. Shevyrev. 1965. Ammonoidea, in The Development and Change of Marine Organisms at the Palaeozoic-Mesozoic Boundary. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 108:166-182
Belongs to Abichites according to D. Korn and V. Hairapetian 2021
See also Korn and Ghaderi 2016, Leonova 2002, Shevyrev 1965 and Teichert and Kummel 1973
Sister taxa: Abichites alibashiensis, Abichites ariaeii, Abichites infirmis, Abichites ovalis, Abichites paucinodus, Abichites shahriari, Abichites stoyanowi, Abichites subtrapezoidalis, Abichites terminalis
Type specimen: PIN 1252/137. Its type locality is Dorasham 2, Paratirolites beds, which is in a Changhsingian marine horizon in the Ali Bashi Formation of Azerbaijan.
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 41.9
Distribution:
• Permian of Armenia (2 collections), Azerbaijan (4), Iran (19)
Total: 25 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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