Araxoceras

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;

Araxoceras is an extinct genus of ceratitid ammonite cephalopod 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., 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.
^ ^a ^b Spinosa, Claude, W. M. Furnish, and Brian F. Glenister. "Araxoceratidae, Upper Permian ammonoids, from the western Hemisphere." Journal of Paleontology (1970): 730-736.
^ 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.
^ Ehiro, Masayuki. "Permian ammonoid fauna of the Kitakami Massif, northeast Japan." Palaeoworld 9 (1998): 113-122.

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