Araxoceras

Araxoceras; Temporal range: Wuchiapingian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
	Araxoceras latissimum
Scientific 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;

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.

References

^ 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.
^ ^a ^b 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.
^ 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.
^ Ehiro, Masayuki (1998). "Permian ammonoid fauna of the Kitakami Massif, northeast Japan". Palaeoworld. 9: 113–122.

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