Cephalopoda - Nautilida - Tainoceratidae
Full reference: A. K. Miller and W. Youngquist. 1949. American Permian nautiloids. Geological Society of America Memoir 41:1-218
Belongs to Metacoceras according to A. K. Miller and W. Youngquist 1949
Sister taxa: Metacoceras altilobatum, Metacoceras artiense, Metacoceras bituberculatum, Metacoceras bowmani, Metacoceras carinatum, Metacoceras cheneyi, Metacoceras chittidilense, Metacoceras copei, Metacoceras cornutum, Metacoceras dorashamense, Metacoceras dorsoarmatum, Metacoceras dubium, Metacoceras hayi, Metacoceras hunanense, Metacoceras inconspicuum, Metacoceras knighti, Metacoceras kruglovi, Metacoceras medlicottianum, Metacoceras orthogonium, Metacoceras parartiense, Metacoceras sangamonense, Metacoceras subpiszovi, Metacoceras subquadratum, Metacoceras sulciferum, Metacoceras unklesbayi, Metacoceras vagans
Type specimen: Its type locality is Self School Creek, Brazos Bluff, which is in a Kungurian marine siliciclastic in the Lueders Formation of Texas
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution: found only at Self School Creek, Brazos Bluff
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