Cephalopoda - Nautilida - Trigonoceratidae
Full reference: D. Korn, L. Y. Miao, and J. Bockwinkel. 2022. The nautiloids from the Early Carboniferous Dalle à Merocanites of Timimoun, western Algeria. European Journal of Taxonomy 789:104-129
Belongs to Rineceras according to D. Korn et al. 2022
Sister taxa: Rineceras alapaevskense, Rineceras balladoolense, Rineceras canaliculatum, Rineceras carinatiforme, Rineceras carinatum, Rineceras digonum, Rineceras luidii, Rineceras meekianum, Rineceras meyerianum, Rineceras ohioense, Rineceras patteiskyi, Rineceras propinquum, Rineceras rectangulatum, Rineceras rhenanum, Rineceras strigatum
Type specimen: MfN MB.C.30381, a shell. Its type locality is TIM-C7, Sebkha de Timimoun, which is in a Chadian carbonate limestone in the Argiles de Timimoun Inférieur Formation of Algeria.
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 21.3
Distribution: found only at TIM-C7, Sebkha de Timimoun
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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