Cephalopoda - Nautilida - Tainoceratidae
Full reference: V. N. Shimansky. 1965. Nautiloidea, in The Development and Change of Marine Organisms at the Palaeozoic-Mesozoic Boundary. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 108:157-165
Belongs to Metacoceras according to C. Teichert and B. Kummel 1973
See also Shimansky 1965
Sister taxa: Metacoceras altilobatum, Metacoceras artiense, Metacoceras baylorense, Metacoceras bituberculatum, Metacoceras bowmani, Metacoceras carinatum, Metacoceras cheneyi, Metacoceras chittidilense, Metacoceras copei, Metacoceras cornutum, 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: PIN 1572/246. Its type locality is Dorasham, Julfa Fm, Dzhulfa Gorge, Arax River, which is in a Wuchiapingian marine limestone in the Julfa Formation of Azerbaijan.
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 35.0
Distribution:
• Permian of Azerbaijan (2 collections), Iran (2)
Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence
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