Hemiliroceras zhiltauense Ruzhentsev and Shimanskiy 1954 (mollusk)

Cephalopoda - Nautilida - Liroceratidae

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

Sister taxa: Hemiliroceras artum, Hemiliroceras enucleatum, Hemiliroceras esaulovae, Hemiliroceras inflatum, Hemiliroceras urtasimense

Type specimen: PIN 626/47. Its type locality is Zhil-Tau Hill, Aktyubinsk Region, which is in an Artinskian marine dolomite in the Baigendzhi Formation of Kazakhstan.

Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 39.3

Distribution: found only at Zhil-Tau Hill, Aktyubinsk Region

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