Cephalopoda - Nautilida - Metacoceratidae
Full reference: V. E. Ruzhentsev and V. N. Shimanskiy. 1954. Nizhnepermskie svernutye i sognutye Nautiloidei yuzhnogo Urala. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 50:1-150
Belongs to Metacoceras according to A. Y. Shchedukhin and T. B. Leonova 2020
See also Ruzhentsev and Shimanskiy 1954
Sister taxa: Metacoceras altilobatum, Metacoceras artiense, Metacoceras baylorense, Metacoceras bituberculatum, Metacoceras bowmani, Metacoceras carinatum, Metacoceras cheneyi, Metacoceras chittidilense, Metacoceras copei, Metacoceras cornutum, Metacoceras dubium, Metacoceras hayi, Metacoceras hunanense, Metacoceras inconspicuum, Metacoceras knighti, Metacoceras kruglovi, Metacoceras medlicottianum, Metacoceras orthogonium, Metacoceras sangamonense, Metacoceras subpiszovi, Metacoceras subquadratum, Metacoceras sulciferum, Metacoceras unklesbayi, Metacoceras vagans
Type specimen: PIN 626/105, a shell. Its type locality is Kurash River, left tributary of Kialy-Burti River, which is in an Artinskian marine sandstone in the Russian Federation.
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 47.8
Distribution:
• Permian of Kazakhstan (3 collections), the Russian Federation (4)
Total: 7 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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