Cephalopoda - Nautilida - Tainoceratidae

Full reference: J. K. Tucker. 1976. A coiled nautiloid fauna from the Mattoon Formation (Pennsylvanian) of Illinois. Transactions of the Illinois State Academy of Science 69(1):57-77

Belongs to Metacoceras according to J. K. Tucker 1976

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

Type specimen: PE 27920. Its type locality is Type localitity of Shumway Limestone Member, Matttoon Fm., Shumway Cyclothem, which is in a Virgilian carbonate lime mudstone/limestone in the Mattoon Formation of Illinois.

Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore