Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Dzhulfitidae
Alternative combination: Paratirolites spinosus
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 Dzhulfites according to D. Korn and V. Hairapetian 2021
See also Leonova 2002, Shevyrev 1965 and Teichert and Kummel 1973
Sister taxa: Dzhulfites brevisellatus, Dzhulfites hebes, Dzhulfites nodosus, Dzhulfites zalensis
Type specimen: PIN 1478/60, a shell. Its type locality is Dorasham 2, Dzhulfites beds, which is in a Changhsingian marine horizon in the Ali Bashi Formation of Azerbaijan.
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 43.9
Distribution:
• Permian of Armenia (1 collection), Azerbaijan (9), Iran (13), Thailand (1)
Total: 24 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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