Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Xenodiscidae
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 Xenodiscus according to T. B. Leonova 2002
See also Shevyrev 1965, Spinosa et al. 1975 and Teichert and Kummel 1973
Sister taxa: Xenodiscus araxensis, Xenodiscus beedei, Xenodiscus besairiei, Xenodiscus carbonarius, Xenodiscus chaotianensis, Xenodiscus dieneri, Xenodiscus gilberti, Xenodiscus guangxiensis, Xenodiscus jubilaearis, Xenodiscus koczyrkeviczi, Xenodiscus lissarensis, Xenodiscus rotundus, Xenodiscus subcarbonarius, Xenodiscus tarpeyi, Xenodiscus wanneri, Xenodiscus xizangensis, Palaeolecanites chapriensis
Type specimen: PIN 1478/68. Its type locality is Dorasham 2, Phisonites beds, which is in a Changhsingian marine horizon in the Ali Bashi Formation of Azerbaijan.
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 39.0
Distribution:
• Permian of Azerbaijan (4 collections), Iran (3)
Total: 7 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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