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 Vestinautilus according to D. Korn et al. 2022
Sister taxa: Vestinautilus altidorsalis, Vestinautilus biangulatus, Vestinautilus cariniferus, Vestinautilus formosus, Vestinautilus kesslerae, Vestinautilus koninckii, Vestinautilus multicarinatus, Vestinautilus padus, Vestinautilus paucicarinatus, Vestinautilus pinguis, Vestinautilus semiglaber, Vestinautilus semiplicatus
Type specimen: MfN MB.C.30384, 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 32.1
Distribution: found only at TIM-C7, Sebkha de Timimoun
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