Araxoceras

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.

Araxoceras
Temporal range: Dzhulfian
Araxoceras latissimum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
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. latissimum Ruzhencev, 1959
  • A. latum Ruzhencev, 1962
  • A. trochoides Abich, 1959
  • A. rotoides Ruzhencev, 1962
  • A. varicatum Ruzhencev, 1962
  • A. glenisteri Ruzhencev, 1962
  • A. tectum Ruzhencev, 1962
  • A. kiangsiense Chao, 1965
  • A. abarquense Zakharov et Mousavi Abnavi, 2010
  • A. iranense Zakharov et Mousavi Abnavi, 2010

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. 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.


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