Kingdom Animalia Class Cephalopoda Order Nautilida Rank Genus | Phylum Mollusca Subclass Nautiloidea Superfamily Trigonocerataceae | |
Permoceras, the sole member of the family Permoceratidae, is a genus of coiled nautiloids with a smooth, compressed involute shell, whorls higher than wide, earlier whorls hidden from view. The venter is rounded as are the ventral and umbilical shoulders, the flanks flattened. The siphuncle is ventrally subcentral. The suture, which is most characteristic, has a deep, narrow pointed ventral lobe and large, asymmetrical pointed lobes on either side.
Permoceras is included in the nautilid superfamily, Trigonocerataceae, and is derived from the Mississippian (L Carb) - Triassic Grypoceratidae. Permoceras was first identified in the Lower Permian of Timur in the East Indies and named by Miller and Collinson in 1953
The coiling and whorl structure of Permoceras almost precisely resembles those of Pseudonautilus from the Upper Jurassic.