Palaeospyroceras Chen et al. 1981 (mollusk)

Cephalopoda - Orthoceratoidea

Full reference: J. Y. Chen, G. W. Liu, and T. E. Chen. 1981. Silurian nautiloid faunas of central and southwestern China. Memoirs of the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology 13:1-104

Parent taxon: Spyroceratinae according to J. Y. Chen et al. 1981

Sister taxa: Adnatoceras, Anastomoceras, Atahococeras, Bitaunioceras, Cancellspyroceras, Cryptorthoceras, Cyrtospyroceras, Cyrtothoracoceras, Diagoceras, Euloxoceras, Fusicoceras, Geisonoceroides, Gordonoceras, Lopingoceras, Palmeroceras, Petryoceras, Pseudocycloceras, Reticycloceras, Sceptrites, Shikhanoceras, Spyroceras, Suloceras, Tripteroceroides

Subtaxa: none

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Yulongsi Formation Yunnanoceras assemblage (Silurian of China)

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