Cephalopoda - Nautilida - Tainoceratidae
Full reference: J. P. Smith. 1927. Upper Triassic marine invertebrate faunas of North America. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 141:1-262
Belongs to Germanonautilus according to B. Kummel 1953
See also Bychkov et al. 1976 and Smith 1927
Sister taxa: Ammonites acis, Cyrtocera linearis, Germanonautilus anceps, Germanonautilus bartovi, Germanonautilus bidorsatus, Germanonautilus breunneri, Germanonautilus bytschkovi, Germanonautilus cassianus, Germanonautilus dolomiticus, Germanonautilus ellipticus, Germanonautilus furlongi, Germanonautilus johnstoni, Germanonautilus klipsteini, Germanonautilus kyotanii, Germanonautilus popowi, Germanonautilus salinarius, Germanonautilus schloenbachi, Germanonautilus sibiricus, Germanonautilus tridorsatus, Nautilus tertius
Type specimen: Its type locality is USGS 9384, south bank of Yukon River, which is in a Julian carbonate limestone in Alaska
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Triassic of the Russian Federation (3 collections), United States (2: Alaska)
Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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