Cephalopoda - Nautilida - Tainoceratidae

Full reference: V. E. Ruzhentsev and V. N. Shimanskiy. 1954. Nizhnepermskie Svernutye i Sognutye Nautiloidei Yuzhnogo Urala [Lower Permian coiled and bent nautiloids of the southern Urals]. Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 50:1-150

Belongs to Metacoceras according to V. E. Ruzhentsev and V. N. Shimanskiy 1954

Sister taxa: Metacoceras altilobatum, Metacoceras artiense, Metacoceras baylorense, Metacoceras bituberculatum, Metacoceras bowmani, Metacoceras cheneyi, Metacoceras chittidilense, Metacoceras copei, Metacoceras dorashamense, Metacoceras dorsoarmatum, Metacoceras dubium, Metacoceras hayi, Metacoceras hunanense, Metacoceras inconspicuum, Metacoceras knighti, Metacoceras kruglovi, Metacoceras medlicottianum, Metacoceras orthogonium, Metacoceras parartiense, Metacoceras subquadratum, Metacoceras sulciferum, Metacoceras unklesbayi

Type specimen: PIN 626/26. Its type locality is Zhil-Tau Hill, Aktyubinsk Region, which is in an Artinskian marine dolomite in the Baigendzhi Formation of the Russian Federation.

Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore