| Araxoceras Temporal range: Wuchiapingian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N | |
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| Araxoceras latissimum | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Subclass: | †Ammonoidea |
| Order: | †Ceratitida |
| Family: | †Araxoceratidae |
| Subfamily: | †Araxoceratinae |
| Genus: | †Araxoceras Ruzhencev, 1959 |
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| Araxoceras latissimum | |
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Araxoceras is an extinct genus of ceratitid ammonites that lived in the Late Permian marine environments of Iran, South China and Japan. 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.
- ^ 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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