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
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Cephalopoda
Subclass:
Ammonoidea
Order:
Ceratitida
Superfamily:
Otoceratoidea
Family:
Araxoceratidae
Genus:
Araxoceras

Ruzhencev, 1959
Type species
Araxoceras latissimum
  • 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., N. Mousavi Abnavi, M. Yazdi, and M. Ghaedi. "New species of Dzhulfian (Late Permian) ammonoids from the Hambast Formation of Central Iran." Paleontological Journal 44, no. 6 (2010): 614-621.
  2. Spinosa, Claude, W. M. Furnish, and Brian F. Glenister. "Araxoceratidae, Upper Permian ammonoids, from the western Hemisphere." Journal of Paleontology (1970): 730-736.
  3. Zong-yan, Z. H. A. N. G., H. E. Wei-hong2a, Z. H. A. N. G. Yang2b, Y. A. N. G. Ting-lu2a, and W. U. Shun-bao2a. "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 1 (2009): 005.
  4. Ehiro, Masayuki. "Permian ammonoid fauna of the Kitakami Massif, northeast Japan." Palaeoworld 9 (1998): 113-122.


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