Fididomatoceras gracile Shimansky 1965 (mollusk)

Cephalopoda - Nautilida - Domatoceratidae

Alternative combination: Domatoceras gracile

Full reference: V. N. Shimansky. 1965. Nautiloidea, in The Development and Change of Marine Organisms at the Palaeozoic-Mesozoic Boundary. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 108:157-165

Belongs to Fididomatoceras according to D. Korn and A. Ghaderi 2025

See also Shimansky 1965 and Teichert and Kummel 1973

Sister taxon: Fididomatoceras intracostatum

Type specimen: PIN 1572/211, a shell. Its type locality is Dorasham, Araxoceras beds, Dzhulfa Gorge, Arax River, which is in a Wuchiapingian marine horizon in the Julfa Formation of Azerbaijan.

Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 48.3

Distribution:

• Permian of Armenia (1 collection), Azerbaijan (6), Iran (2)

Total: 9 collections each including a single occurrence

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