Rhiphaeoceras venustum 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 humile

Type specimen: PIN 626/7. Its type locality is Aktasty River, eastern limestone ridge, Aktastinian, Aktyubinsk Region, which is in an Artinskian marine limestone in Kazakhstan.

Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 30.0

Distribution: found only at Aktasty River, eastern limestone ridge, Aktastinian, Aktyubinsk Region

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