Cephalopoda - Nautilida - Metacoceratidae
Alternative combination: Metacoceras dorashamense
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 Serometacoceras according to D. Korn and A. Ghaderi 2025
See also Shimansky 1965 and Teichert and Kummel 1973
Sister taxa: Serometacoceras arasense, Serometacoceras cingulum, Serometacoceras costale, Serometacoceras dorsoarmatum, Serometacoceras dzhagadzurense, Serometacoceras incertum, Serometacoceras inflatum, Serometacoceras parvituberculatum, Serometacoceras pentagonum, Serometacoceras tuberculare, Serometacoceras verae
Type specimen: PIN 1572/246, a shell. Its type locality is Dorasham, Julfa Fm, Dzhulfa Gorge, Arax River, which is in a Wuchiapingian marine limestone in the Julfa Formation of Azerbaijan.
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 50.1
Distribution:
• Permian of Azerbaijan (2 collections), Iran (6)
Total: 8 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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