Propinacoceras shuangputangense Liang 1981 (ammonite)

Cephalopoda - Prolecanitida - Medlicottiidae

Full reference: X. L. Liang. 1981. Early Permian cephalopods from northwestern Gansu and western Nei Mongol. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 20:485-500

Belongs to Propinacoceras according to T. B. Leonova 2002

See also Liang 1981

Sister taxa: Propinacoceras affine, Propinacoceras ajense, Propinacoceras aktubense, Propinacoceras asiaticum, Propinacoceras beyrichi, Propinacoceras busterense, Propinacoceras galilaei, Propinacoceras insulcatum, Propinacoceras junctum, Propinacoceras modestum, Propinacoceras sangobense, Propinacoceras toumanskayae

Type specimen: Its type locality is F7, bed 12, Shuangputang, Jinta County, which is in a Roadian marine shale in the Shuangputang Formation of China

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 15.0

Distribution: found only at F7, bed 12, Shuangputang, Jinta County

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