Tainoceras luxaeterna Dernov 2025 (mollusk)

Cephalopoda - Nautilida - Tainoceratidae

Full reference: V. Dernov. 2025. Tainoceras luxaeterna sp. nov., a new Late Pennsylvanian nautiloid species (Cephalopoda) from the Donets Basin, eastern Ukraine. Historical Biology 37:2262-2267

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

See also Dernov 2025

Sister taxa: Tainoceras abukumaense, Tainoceras admonens, Tainoceras balestense, Tainoceras bukkense, Tainoceras carinatum, Tainoceras cavatum, Tainoceras changlingpuense, Tainoceras clydense, Tainoceras collinsi, Tainoceras comptum, Tainoceras crassicostatum, Tainoceras debile, Tainoceras duttoni, Tainoceras gibbosum, Tainoceras guizhouense, Tainoceras hunanense, Tainoceras hystatum, Tainoceras kitakamiense, Tainoceras latecostatum, Tainoceras lateronodosum, Tainoceras malsineri, Tainoceras marylandicum, Tainoceras mingshanense, Tainoceras monilifer, Tainoceras murrayi, Tainoceras nebrascense, Tainoceras nodocarinatum, Tainoceras noetlingi, Tainoceras occidentale, Tainoceras orientale, Tainoceras quadrangulum, Tainoceras rotundatum, Tainoceras schellbachi, Tainoceras sexlineatum, Tainoceras toulai, Tainoceras trautscholdi, Tainoceras trimuense, Tainoceras unitum, Tainoceras unklesbayi, Tainoceras vashutinense, Tainoceras wyomingense, Tainoceras zmajevatense

Type specimen: IGS NASU-23/01, a shell. Its type locality is Kalynove section (O6 limestone), which is in a Kasimovian/Gzhelian carbonate limestone in the Avilovka Formation of Ukraine.

Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 100.0

Distribution: found only at Kalynove section (O6 limestone)

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