Serometacoceras arasense Korn and Ghaderi 2025 (mollusk)

Cephalopoda - Nautilida - Metacoceratidae

Full reference: D. Korn and A. Ghaderi. 2025. Late Permian nautiloids from Julfa (NW Iran). European Journal of Taxonomy 1018:1-113

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

Sister taxa: Serometacoceras cingulum, Serometacoceras costale, Serometacoceras dorashamense, Serometacoceras dorsoarmatum, Serometacoceras dzhagadzurense, Serometacoceras incertum, Serometacoceras inflatum, Serometacoceras parvituberculatum, Serometacoceras pentagonum, Serometacoceras tuberculare, Serometacoceras verae

Type specimen: MfN MB.C.29349, a shell. Its type locality is Aras Valley, -9.5 m, which is in a Changhsingian carbonate limestone in the Ali Bashi Formation of Iran.

Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 81.5

Distribution: found only at Aras Valley, -9.5 m

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