Parapenascoceras rotundatum Miller and Unklesbay 1942 (nautiloid)

Cephalopoda - Nautilida - Grypoceratidae

Alternative combinations: Stearoceras rotundatum, Titanoceras rotundatum

Full reference: A. K. Miller and A. G. Unklesbay. 1942. Permian nautiloids from western United States. Journal of Paleontology 16(6):719-738

Belongs to Parapenascoceras according to V. E. Ruzhentsev and V. N. Shimanskiy 1954

See also Miller and Unklesbay 1942 and Miller and Youngquist 1949

Sister taxa: Parapenascoceras aberrans, Parapenascoceras sanandreasense

Type specimen: Its type locality is Penasco Valley, Highway 82, which is in a Roadian shallow subtidal limestone in the San Andres Formation of New Mexico

Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 130.0

Distribution:

• Permian of United States (6: Arizona, New Mexico collections)

Total: 6 collections each including a single occurrence

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