ammonites
Gzheloceras sholakense Ruzhentsev and Shimanskiy 1954 (mollusk)

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 Gzheloceras according to V. E. Ruzhentsev and V. N. Shimanskiy 1954

Sister taxa: Gzheloceras biangulare, Gzheloceras ellipsoidale, Gzheloceras uralense

Type specimen: PIN 626/106. Its type locality is Sholak-Say River, Aktobe Region, which is in a Sakmarian marine sandstone in Kazakstan.

Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore