Cephalopoda - Nautilida - Tainoceratidae
Full reference: A. Hyatt. 1893. Carboniferous cephalopods, second paper. Annual Report of the Geological Survey of Texas 4(2):377-474
Belongs to Tainoceras according to D. Korn and A. Ghaderi 2025
See also Hyatt 1893, Kummel 1963 and Miller and Unklesbay 1942
Sister taxa: Tainoceras abukumaense, Tainoceras admonens, Tainoceras balestense, Tainoceras bukkense, Tainoceras carinatum, Tainoceras cavatum, Tainoceras changlingpuense, Tainoceras clydense, Tainoceras collinsi, Tainoceras comptum, Tainoceras crassicostatum, Tainoceras debile, 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: MCZ 8804, a shell. Its type locality is Zuni Plateau, 12-15 miles SW of Grants, which is in a Kungurian marine horizon in the San Andres Formation of New Mexico.
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 133.5
Distribution:
• Permian of United States (2: Arizona, New Mexico collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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