Shahrezanautilus, Korn & Hairapetian, 2025

Korn, Dieter & Hairapetian, Vachik, 2025, Late Permian nautiloids from Baghuk Mountain (Central Iran), European Journal of Taxonomy 1019, pp. 1-76 : 66

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2025.1019.3071

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:E24EBF4A-9FE2-47E4-A656-E1698F88BB41

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17227821

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03E487D4-FF9A-4941-FD8B-5890875BFAA6

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Plazi

scientific name

Shahrezanautilus
status

gen. nov.

Genus Shahrezanautilus gen. nov.

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New genus E – Korn 2025: 69.

Type species

Shahrezanautilus weyeri gen. et sp. nov.

Diagnosis

Genus of the family Julfanautilidae with thinly pachyconic, subinvolute conch. Conch rapidly increasing in height with an extraordinarily high coiling rate (WER higher than 3.00). Whorls weakly embracing, whorl profile weakly depressed. Venter broadly rounded, umbilical wall flat and steep. Adult ornament with extremely fine growth lines. Septa without inflexions, slightly concave. Suture line simple with a shallow external lobe and a broadly rounded lateral lobe.

Etymology

Named after the city of Shahreza, the type locality of the type species.

Included species

Central Iran (this paper): Shahrezanautilus weyeri gen. et sp. nov., Wuchiapingian; Shahrezanautilus ghaderii gen. et sp. nov., Wuchiapingian.

Remarks

Shahrezanautilus gen. nov. differs from Julfanautilus in the broadly rounded venter, which in Julfanautilus has a concave shape.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Mollusca

Class

Cephalopoda

SubClass

Nautiloidea

Order

Nautilida

SubOrder

Liroceratina

SuperFamily

Liroceratoidea

Family

Permonautilidae

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