Rhiphaeoceras humile Ruzhentsev and Shimanskiy 1954 (mollusk)

Cephalopoda - Nautilida - Rhiphaeoceratidae

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 Rhiphaeoceras according to V. E. Ruzhentsev and V. N. Shimanskiy 1954

Sister taxon: Rhiphaeoceras venustum

Type specimen: PIN 626/107. Its type locality is Sholak-Say River, Aktobe Region, which is in a Sakmarian marine sandstone in Kazakhstan.

Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 20.4

Distribution: found only at Sholak-Say River, Aktobe Region

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