Stacheoceras caucasicus Zakharov 1989 (ammonite)

Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Vidrioceratidae

Alternative combination: Waagenina caucasica

Full reference: Y. D. Zakharov. 1989. Taxonomic names: Cephalopoda. Evolution of the latest Permian biota: Midian regional stage in the USSR 126-133

Belongs to Stacheoceras according to M. E. Clapham 2015

See also Zakharov 1989

Sister taxa: Stacheoceras (Neostacheoceras), Stacheoceras andrussowi, Stacheoceras antiquum, Stacheoceras arthaberi, Stacheoceras beishanense, Stacheoceras boesei, Stacheoceras borissiaki, 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 lijiangense, 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: BPI 8/820. Its type locality is Severnaya Balka, Sample 550-5, Malaya Laba River, which is in a Changhsingian marine siliciclastic in the Urushten Formation of the Russian Federation.

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 31.5

Distribution: found only at Severnaya Balka, Sample 550-5, Malaya Laba River

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