Cephalopoda - Nautilida - Tainoceratidae
Full reference: E. S. Sobolev. 1989. Triasovye nautilidy arkhipelaga Svalbard. Verkhniy Paleozoy i Trias Sibiri. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Sibirskoe Otdelenie Trudy Instituta Geologii I Geofiziki 732:122-134
Belongs to Arctonautilus according to E. S. Sobolev 1989
Sister taxa: Arctonautilus dolganensis, Arctonautilus egorovi, Arctonautilus ljubovae, Arctonautilus migayi, Arctonautilus orbiculatus, Arctonautilus spatiosus, Arctonautilus zvetkovi
Type specimen: IGiG 849/4, a shell. Its type locality is Cape Toscana, southern coast of Van Keulen Fjord, which is in an Anisian marine siliciclastic in Svalbard and Jan Mayen.
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 82.8
Distribution: found only at Cape Toscana, southern coast of Van Keulen Fjord
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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