Scyphoceras ellipticum Ruzhentsev and Shimanskiy 1954 (nautiloid)

Cephalopoda - Nautilida - Scyphoceratidae

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

Sister taxa: Scyphoceras angulatum, Scyphoceras cessator, Scyphoceras dionysi, Scyphoceras primulum

Type specimen: PIN 442/187. Its type locality is Aktasty River, eastern limestone ridge, Aktastinian, Aktyubinsk Region, which is in an Artinskian marine limestone in Kazakhstan.

Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Distribution:

• Permian of Kazakhstan (3 collections), the Russian Federation (2)

Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence

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