Tainoceras guizhouense Zheng 1984 (nautiloid)

Cephalopoda - Nautilida - Tainoceratidae

Alternative combination: Tainoceras guizhouensis

Full reference: Z. G. Zheng. 1984. Late Permian nautiloids from western Guizhou. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 23:239-252

Belongs to Tainoceras according to L. Miao et al. 2019

See also Yao et al. 1980 and Zheng 1984

Sister taxa: Tainoceras abukumaense, Tainoceras balestense, Tainoceras carinatum, Tainoceras cavatum, Tainoceras changlingpuense, Tainoceras clydense, Tainoceras comptum, Tainoceras debile, Tainoceras duttoni, Tainoceras gibbosum, Tainoceras hunanense, Tainoceras kitakamiense, Tainoceras lateronodosum, Tainoceras malsineri, Tainoceras mingshanense, Tainoceras murrayi, Tainoceras nebrascense, Tainoceras noetlingi, Tainoceras orientale, Tainoceras rotundatum, Tainoceras schellbachi, Tainoceras sexlineatum, Tainoceras toulai, Tainoceras trautscholdi, Tainoceras trimuense, Tainoceras wyomingense

Type specimen: NIGP 34365. Its type locality is Heilajia Section HP37-6, Langdai County, which is in a Changhsingian carbonate limestone in the Changxing Formation of China.

Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 77.3

Distribution:

• Permian of China (6 collections)

Total: 6 collections each including a single occurrence

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