Peripetoceras asselense Ruzhentsev and Shimanskiy 1954 (nautiloid)

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

Sister taxa: Peripetoceras bridgeportense, Peripetoceras burovi, Peripetoceras cautum, Peripetoceras comploji, Peripetoceras fischeri, Peripetoceras freieslebeni, Peripetoceras gigas, Peripetoceras globatoides, Peripetoceras ideliense, Peripetoceras kummeli, Peripetoceras ozarkense, Peripetoceras tormentum

Type specimen: PIN 626/80. Its type locality is Assel River, 2.5 km N of Yuldybaevo, which is in an Artinskian marine lime mudstone in the Russian Federation.

Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 24.0

Distribution: found only at Assel River, 2.5 km N of Yuldybaevo

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