Cephalopoda - Nautilida - Tainoceratidae
Synonym: Tainoceras unklesbayi Miller and Youngquist 1949
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 B. Kummel 1963
See also Hyatt 1893, Miller and Unklesbay 1942 and Miller and Youngquist 1949
Sister taxa: Tainoceras abukumaense, Tainoceras balestense, Tainoceras carinatum, Tainoceras cavatum, Tainoceras changlingpuense, Tainoceras clydense, Tainoceras comptum, Tainoceras debile, Tainoceras gibbosum, Tainoceras guizhouense, Tainoceras hunanense, Tainoceras kitakamiense, Tainoceras lateronodosum, Tainoceras malsineri, Tainoceras mingshanense, Tainoceras murrayi, Tainoceras nebrascense, Tainoceras noetlingi, Tainoceras orientale, Tainoceras rotundatum, Tainoceras schellbachi, Tainoceras sexlineatum, Tainoceras toulai, Tainoceras trautscholdi, Tainoceras trimuense, Tainoceras wyomingense
Type specimens:
- Tainoceras duttoni: 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.
- Tainoceras unklesbayi: Grand Canyon National Park Museum Fk-764.
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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