Cephalopoda - Nautilida - Tainoceratidae
Alternative combination: Metacoceras marylandica
Belongs to Tainoceras according to D. Korn and A. Ghaderi 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 luxaeterna, Tainoceras malsineri, 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: Its type locality is Ames Shale, Garrett County, which is in a Virgilian marine shale in the Conemaugh Formation of Maryland
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution: found only at Ames Shale, Garrett County
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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