Paranautilus asiaticus Sobolev 1989 (nautiloid)

Cephalopoda - Nautilida - Liroceratidae

Full reference: E. S. Sobolev. 1989. Triasovye nautilidy severo-vostochnoy Azii. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Sibirskoe Otdelenie Trudy Instituta Geologii I Geofiziki 727:1-193

Belongs to Paranautilus according to E. S. Sobolev 1989

Sister taxa: Paranautilus anisi, Paranautilus brembanus, Paranautilus bullockii, Paranautilus expansus, Paranautilus indifferens, Paranautilus karczi, Paranautilus modestus, Paranautilus nodatus, Paranautilus peregrinus, Paranautilus sibylloides, Paranautilus simonyi, Paranautilus smithi, Paranautilus sphaeroidalis, Paranautilus tommasii

Type specimen: IGiG 759/248, a shell. Its type locality is Levaya Popozhistaya River, Gizhiga Basin, which is in a Tuvalian/Lacian marine siliciclastic in the Russian Federation.

Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 115.5

Distribution: found only at Levaya Popozhistaya River, Gizhiga Basin

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