Shouchangoceras

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Shouchangoceras
Temporal range: Late Permian
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Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Order: Goniatitida
Family: Pseudohaloritidae
Genus:Shouchangoceras
Zhao & Zheng, 1977

Shouchangoceras is a genus of goniatitid pseudohaloritid ammonoids and is the type genus for the pseudohaloritid subfamily Shouchangocerinae. The genus is characterized by a compressed shell as much as 5 cm in diameter, with a strongly constricted mature peristome that has shallow dorsolateral sinus, a moderately deep rounded ventral sinus, but without conspicuous lappets, and ornamented by moderately strong transverse ribs and numerous stronger longitudinal lirae, producing a weakly reticulate pattern. Lobes are attenuate. The siphuncle is within the dorsal septal flecture.

Pseudohaloritidae is the larger of two families that form the goniatitid superfamily Pseudohaloritaceae, the other being the monogenerc Maximitidae. They are part of the vast array of shelled cephalopods known as ammonoids that are more closely related to squids, belemnites, octopuses, and cuttlefish, than to the superficially similar Nautilus.

Shouchangoceras is known from the Upper Permian of Texas and south China. It is the only genus named and described by Zhao & Zheng known also from North America.

Shouchangoceras resembles both Shangraoceras and Sangzhites in ornament, all three of which possess transverse ribs and longitudinal lirae. In Shouchangoceras both are moderately developed. In Shangraoceras lirae are fine, if found at all, while ribs are course. In Sangzhites both ribs and lirae and strongly developed .

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