Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Araxoceratidae
Full reference: Z. S. Qin. 1986. New material of early Late Permian cephalopods in Fengcheng-Gaoan area, Jiangxi. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 25:272-283
Belongs to Prototoceras according to Z. S. Qin 1986
Sister taxa: Prototoceras anfuense, Prototoceras complanatum, Prototoceras compressum, Prototoceras diluterotalum, Prototoceras discoidale, Prototoceras fedoroffi, Prototoceras fengchengense, Prototoceras hunanense, Prototoceras inflatum, Prototoceras intermedium, Prototoceras longilobatum, Prototoceras multidenticulatum, Prototoceras pachygyrum, Prototoceras parallelum, Prototoceras pessoides, Prototoceras plicatum, Prototoceras pulchriforme, Prototoceras raddei, Prototoceras tropitum, Prototoceras venustum, Prototoceras xiangulingense
Type specimen: Geological Bureau of Jiangxi Dong49. Its type locality is Dongshenling, Middle Member, Fengcheng County, which is in a Wuchiapingian coastal siliciclastic in the Loping Formation of China.
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 22.0
Distribution: found only at Dongshenling, Middle Member, Fengcheng County
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