Tainoceras carinatum Ehiro and Araki 1997 (mollusk)

Cephalopoda - Nautilida - Tainoceratidae

Full reference: M. Ehiro and H. Araki. 1997. Permian cephalopods of Kurosawa, Kesennuma City in the Southern Kitakami Massif, northeast Japan. Paleontological Research 1:55-66

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

See also Ehiro and Araki 1997

Sister taxa: Tainoceras abukumaense, Tainoceras admonens, Tainoceras balestense, Tainoceras bukkense, 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 malsineri, 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: IGPS 103114. Its type locality is Kurosawa B-1, which is in a Capitanian deep-water mudstone in the Ochiai Formation of Japan.

Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Kurosawa B-1

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