Cephalopoda - Nautilida - Metacoceratidae
Alternative combination: Pleuronautilus costalis
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 Shimanskiy 1967 and Shimansky 1965
Sister taxa: Serometacoceras arasense, Serometacoceras cingulum, Serometacoceras dorashamense, Serometacoceras dorsoarmatum, Serometacoceras dzhagadzurense, Serometacoceras incertum, Serometacoceras inflatum, Serometacoceras parvituberculatum, Serometacoceras pentagonum, Serometacoceras tuberculare, Serometacoceras verae
Type specimen: PIN 1572/419, a shell. Its type locality is Chanakhchi, Vedioceras Beds, which is in a Changhsingian carbonate limestone in the Ali Bashi Formation of Armenia.
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution: found only at Chanakhchi, Vedioceras Beds
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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