Journal of Paleontology; May 2002; v. 76; no. 3;
p. 424-430; DOI: 10.1666/0022-3360(2002)076<0424:EPAGYC>2.0.CO;2
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ENDEMIC PERMIAN AMMONOID GENUS YINOCERAS, CENTRAL HUNAN, SOUTH CHINA
ZUREN ZHOU1,
BRIAN F. GLENISTER2 and
W. M. FURNISH2
1 Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China, <zrzhou{at}jlonline.com>
2 Department of Geoscience, University of Iowa, Iowa City 52242 USA, <brian-glenister{at}uiowa.edu>
Revision and redefinition of the Permian ammonoid genus Yinoceras Chao, 1954, is based upon examination of the holotype of its type species, Y. lenticulare Chao, plus new material collected from the Kungurian Dangchong Formation of central Hunan, China. Yinoceras is a valid yinoceratin genus within the pseudohaloritid Superfamily Pseudohaloritoidea, Suborder Tornoceratina, Order Goniatitida.
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