Cephalopoda - Nautilida - Tainoceratidae
Full reference: J. K. Zhao. 1954. Permian cephalopods from Tanchiashan, Hunan. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 2:1-58
Belongs to Tainoceras according to G. H. Xu 1977
See also Zhao 1954
Sister taxa: Tainoceras abukumaense, Tainoceras balestense, Tainoceras carinatum, Tainoceras cavatum, Tainoceras changlingpuense, Tainoceras clydense, Tainoceras comptum, Tainoceras debile, Tainoceras duttoni, Tainoceras gibbosum, Tainoceras guizhouense, 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: Its type locality is Changlingpu, Tanchiashan, Xiangtan County (Chao coll), which is in a Kungurian coastal mudstone in China
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 31.5
Distribution: found only at Changlingpu, Tanchiashan, Xiangtan County (Chao coll)
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