Bitaunioceras

Bitaunioceras
Temporal range: Permian
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Nautiloidea
Order: Orthocerida
Superfamily: Orthocerataceae
Family: Orthoceratidae
Subfamily: Michelinoceratinae
Genus: Bitaunioceras
Shimizy & Obata, 1936

Bitaunioceras is a genus of Permian orthocerids with a gradually expanding, straight, orthoconic shell with straight transverse sutures and a small, subcentral siphuncle with straight tubular orthochoamitic necks.

The shell surface of Bitaunioceras has a few, shallow, rounded constrictions and numerous, unequal, prominent transverse wire-like lirae.

Bitaunioceras species have been found in Texas in the United States, Coahuila in Mexico, Sicily, Timor, and the south Urals in Russia.

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