Tylonautilus mergus Shimanskiy 1967 (nautiloid)

Cephalopoda - Nautilida - Tainoceratidae

Full reference: V. N. Shimanskiy. 1967. Kammenougol'nye Nautilida. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 115:1-258

Belongs to Tylonautilus according to V. N. Shimanskiy 1967

Sister taxa: Tylonautilus gratiosus, Tylonautilus permicus, Tylonautilus qinglongensis

Type specimen: PIN 1513/27, a shell

Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 39.0

Distribution: found only at Dombar Hills, North Kazachstan (Carboniferous of Kazakhstan)

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