Cephalopoda - Nautilida - Tainoceratidae
Full reference: B. Kummel. 1953. American Triassic coiled nautiloids. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 250:1-104
Belongs to Germanonautilus according to B. Kummel 1953
Sister taxa: Ammonites acis, Cyrtocera linearis, Germanonautilus anceps, Germanonautilus bartovi, Germanonautilus bidorsatus, Germanonautilus breunneri, Germanonautilus brooksi, Germanonautilus bytschkovi, Germanonautilus cassianus, Germanonautilus dolomiticus, Germanonautilus ellipticus, Germanonautilus furlongi, Germanonautilus klipsteini, Germanonautilus kyotanii, Germanonautilus popowi, Germanonautilus salinarius, Germanonautilus schloenbachi, Germanonautilus sibiricus, Germanonautilus tridorsatus, Nautilus tertius
Type specimen: USNM 107088. Its type locality is South Canyon, New Pass Range, which is in an Illyrian deep-water siliciclastic in the Favret Formation of Nevada.
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 42.0
Distribution: found only at South Canyon, New Pass Range
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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