Cephalopoda - Nautilida - Tainoceratidae
Full reference: A. K. Miller and A. G. Unklesbay. 1942. Permian nautiloids from western United States. Journal of Paleontology 16(6):719-738
Belongs to Tainoceras according to A. K. Miller and W. Youngquist 1949
See also Miller and Unklesbay 1942
Sister taxa: Tainoceras abukumaense, Tainoceras balestense, Tainoceras carinatum, Tainoceras cavatum, Tainoceras changlingpuense, Tainoceras clydense, Tainoceras comptum, Tainoceras debile, Tainoceras duttoni, Tainoceras gibbosum, Tainoceras guizhouense, Tainoceras hunanense, Tainoceras kitakamiense, Tainoceras lateronodosum, Tainoceras malsineri, Tainoceras mingshanense, Tainoceras murrayi, Tainoceras nebrascense, Tainoceras noetlingi, Tainoceras orientale, Tainoceras rotundatum, Tainoceras sexlineatum, Tainoceras toulai, Tainoceras trautscholdi, Tainoceras trimuense, Tainoceras wyomingense
Type specimen: Grand Canyon NP Mus Fk-653. Its type locality is Hilltop, Grand Canyon, which is in a Kungurian shallow subtidal limestone in the Kaibab Formation of Arizona.
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 110.0
Distribution:
• Permian of United States (4: Arizona collections)
Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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