Tainoceras malsineri Prinoth and Posenato 2007 (mollusk)

Cephalopoda - Nautilida - Tainoceratidae

Full reference: H. Prinoth and R. Posenato. 2007. Late Permian nautiloids from the Bellerophon Formation of the Dolomites (Italy). Palaeontographica Abteilung A 282:135-165

Belongs to Tainoceras according to D. Korn and A. Ghaderi 2025

See also Prinoth and Posenato 2007

Sister taxa: Tainoceras abukumaense, Tainoceras admonens, Tainoceras balestense, Tainoceras bukkense, Tainoceras carinatum, Tainoceras cavatum, Tainoceras changlingpuense, Tainoceras clydense, Tainoceras collinsi, Tainoceras comptum, Tainoceras crassicostatum, Tainoceras debile, Tainoceras duttoni, Tainoceras gibbosum, Tainoceras guizhouense, Tainoceras hunanense, Tainoceras hystatum, Tainoceras kitakamiense, Tainoceras latecostatum, Tainoceras lateronodosum, Tainoceras luxaeterna, Tainoceras marylandicum, Tainoceras mingshanense, Tainoceras monilifer, Tainoceras murrayi, Tainoceras nebrascense, Tainoceras nodocarinatum, Tainoceras noetlingi, Tainoceras occidentale, Tainoceras orientale, Tainoceras quadrangulum, Tainoceras rotundatum, Tainoceras schellbachi, Tainoceras sexlineatum, Tainoceras toulai, Tainoceras trautscholdi, Tainoceras trimuense, Tainoceras unitum, Tainoceras unklesbayi, Tainoceras vashutinense, Tainoceras wyomingense, Tainoceras zmajevatense

Type specimen: MNS EM40. Its type locality is Val d'Anna, Ortisei, which is in a Changhsingian shallow subtidal limestone/limestone in the Bellerophon Formation of Italy.

Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 105.0

Distribution: found only at Val d'Anna, Ortisei

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