Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Vidrioceratidae
Full reference: X. L. Liang. 1983. New material of Permian ammonoids with discussion on the origin, migration of Araxoceratidae and the horizon of the Paratirolites. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 22(6):606-615
Belongs to Stacheoceras according to T. B. Leonova 2002
See also Bogoslovskaya 1990 and Liang 1983
Sister taxa: Stacheoceras (Neostacheoceras), Stacheoceras andrussowi, Stacheoceras antiquum, Stacheoceras arthaberi, Stacheoceras beishanense, Stacheoceras boesei, Stacheoceras borissiaki, Stacheoceras caucasicus, Stacheoceras chaotianense, Stacheoceras collignoni, Stacheoceras darae, Stacheoceras discoidale, Stacheoceras gaudryi, Stacheoceras gemmellaroi, Stacheoceras giganteum, Stacheoceras gilliamense, Stacheoceras globulinum, Stacheoceras gordoni, Stacheoceras iwaizakiense, Stacheoceras karpinskyi, Stacheoceras mediterraneum, Stacheoceras megamultidentatum, Stacheoceras mirificum, Stacheoceras oblatum, Stacheoceras orientale, Stacheoceras pengboense, Stacheoceras priscum, Stacheoceras quadridens, Stacheoceras raridentatum, Stacheoceras rothi, Stacheoceras sexlobatum, Stacheoceras shaiwaense, Stacheoceras sosiense, Stacheoceras tepense, Stacheoceras tietzei, Stacheoceras timorense, Stacheoceras toumanskayae, Stacheoceras tschernyschewi, Stacheoceras vogti, Stacheoceras xiukangense, Stacheoceras yajiangense, Parastacheoceras bidentatus
Type specimen: NIGP 72338. Its type locality is Hailuo, Mingyin, Lijiang County, which is in a Wuchiapingian coastal siliciclastic in the Longtan Formation of China.
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 61.3
Distribution: found only at Hailuo, Mingyin, Lijiang County
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