Cephalopoda - Nautilida - Tainoceratidae
Full reference: R. Etheridge Jr. 1907. Official contributions to the palaeontology of South Australia, No. 18 - Carboniferous fossils from Fossil Head, Treachery Bay, Victoria River estuary. South Australian Parliamentary Paper 55(Suppl):6-11
Belongs to Pleuronautilus according to R. Etheridge 1907
Sister taxa: Pleuronautilus alaskensis, Pleuronautilus ambiguus, Pleuronautilus ampezzanus, Pleuronautilus changxingensis, Pleuronautilus chisatoi, Pleuronautilus cooperi, Pleuronautilus cornaliae, Pleuronautilus costalis, Pleuronautilus crassescens, Pleuronautilus distinctus, Pleuronautilus dzhagadzurensis, Pleuronautilus dzhulfensis, Pleuronautilus esinensis, Pleuronautilus furcatus, Pleuronautilus gaudryi, Pleuronautilus gregarius, Pleuronautilus incertus, Pleuronautilus latissimus, Pleuronautilus lepsiusi, Pleuronautilus linchengense, Pleuronautilus loczyi, Pleuronautilus magnicostatus, Pleuronautilus magnus, Pleuronautilus marmolatae, Pleuronautilus megaporus, Pleuronautilus mosis, Pleuronautilus mutatus, Pleuronautilus narcissae, Pleuronautilus oenanus, Pleuronautilus ornatus, Pleuronautilus pichleri, Pleuronautilus praecursor, Pleuronautilus ptychoides, Pleuronautilus qinghaianus, Pleuronautilus russkiensis, Pleuronautilus scabiosus, Pleuronautilus seminodosus, Pleuronautilus shumardianus, Pleuronautilus stautei, Pleuronautilus subgemmatus, Pleuronautilus sumatrensis, Pleuronautilus tibeticus, Pleuronautilus trinodosus, Pleuronautilus tschichatscheffi, Pleuronautilus venustus, Pleuronautilus verae, Pleuronautilus yahagiensis, Pleuronautilus zhongyingensis, Huanghoceras warchense
Type specimen: Its type locality is Fossil Head, Port Keats Mission, Bonaparte Gulf, which is in a Roadian marine siliciclastic in the Lower Marine Beds Formation of Australia
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 129.4
Distribution: found only at Fossil Head, Port Keats Mission, Bonaparte Gulf
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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