Araxoceras

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Araxoceras
Temporal range: Wuchiapingian
Araxoceras latissimum.jpg
Araxoceras latissimum
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Ceratitida
Family: Araxoceratidae
Subfamily: Araxoceratinae
Genus: Araxoceras
Ruzhencev, 1959
Type species
Araxoceras latissimum
Species
  • A. latissimumRuzhencev, 1959
  • A. latumRuzhencev, 1962
  • A. trochoidesAbich, 1959
  • A. rotoidesRuzhencev, 1962
  • A. varicatumRuzhencev, 1962
  • A. glenisteriRuzhencev, 1962
  • A. tectumRuzhencev, 1962
  • A. kiangsienseChao, 1965
  • A. abarquenseZakharov et Mousavi Abnavi, 2010
  • A. iranenseZakharov et Mousavi Abnavi, 2010

Araxoceras is an extinct genus of ceratitid ammonites that lived in the Late Permian marine environments of Iran, [1] [2] South China [2] [3] and Japan. [4] The various species had distinctive, angular-cornered shells.

References

  1. Zakharov, Yu. D.; Abnavi, N. Mousavi; Yazdi, M.; Ghaedi, M. (2010). "New species of Dzhulfian (Late Permian) ammonoids from the Hambast Formation of Central Iran". Paleontological Journal. 44 (6): 614–621. doi:10.1134/s003103011006002x. S2CID   129876784.
  2. 1 2 Spinosa, Claude; Furnish, W. M.; Glenister, Brian F. (1970). "Araxoceratidae, Upper Permian Ammonoids, from the Western Hemisphere". Journal of Paleontology. 44 (4): 730–736. JSTOR   1302664.
  3. Zhang, Zong-yan; He, Wei-hong; Zhang, Yang; Yang, Ting-lu; Wu, Shun-bao (2009). "Late Permian-Earliest Triassic Ammonoid Sequences from the Rencunping Section, Sangzhi County, Hunan Province, South China and Their Regional Correlation". Geological Science and Technology Information. 28 (1): 23–30.
  4. Ehiro, Masayuki (1998). "Permian ammonoid fauna of the Kitakami Massif, northeast Japan". Palaeoworld . 9: 113–122.