Brachycycloceras rustaqense Niko et al. 1996 (mollusk)

Cephalopoda - Orthoceratoidea

Full reference: S. Niko, A. Pillevuit, and T. Nishida. 1996. Early Late Permian (Wordian) non-ammonoid cephalopods from the Hamrat Duru Group, central Oman Mountains. Transactions and Proceedings of the Paleontological Society of Japan, N.S. 183:522-527

Belongs to Brachycycloceras according to S. Niko et al. 1996

Sister taxa: Brachycycloceras bransoni, Brachycycloceras curtum, Brachycycloceras cyclophorum, Brachycycloceras normale, Brachycycloceras washingtonense

Type specimen: MGL 72026. Its type locality is Rustaq, talus collection, central Oman Mountains, which is in a Roadian basinal (carbonate) packstone in the Hamrat Duru Formation of Oman.

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Rustaq, talus collection, central Oman Mountains

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