MolluscaBase taxon details
Talassoceras Balashov, 1960 †
1888762 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1888762)
accepted
Genus
Talassoceras kumyschtagense Balashov, 1960 † (type by original designation)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
neuter
MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Talassoceras Balashov, 1960 †. Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1888762 on 2026-08-12
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original description
Balashov, Z. G. (1960). Novye ordovikskie nautiloidei SSSR [New Ordovician nautiloids of the USSR]. <em>Novye Vidy Drevnikh Rastennyi i Besposvonochnykh SSSR.</em> 2: 123-137 [in Russian].
page(s): 123 [details] Available for editors
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basis of record Crick, R. E. (1981). Diversity and evolutionary rates of Cambro-Ordovician nautiloids. <em>Paleobiology.</em> 7(2): 216-229., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/s0094837300003997 [details]
additional source Evans, D. H.; King, A. H. (2012). Resolving polyphyly within the Endocerida: The Bisonocerida nov., a new order of early palaeozoic nautiloids. <em>Geobios.</em> 45(1): 19-28., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geobios.2011.11.015
page(s): Supplementary materials, p. 7 [details]
page(s): 123 [details] Available for editors
[request]basis of record Crick, R. E. (1981). Diversity and evolutionary rates of Cambro-Ordovician nautiloids. <em>Paleobiology.</em> 7(2): 216-229., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/s0094837300003997 [details]
additional source Evans, D. H.; King, A. H. (2012). Resolving polyphyly within the Endocerida: The Bisonocerida nov., a new order of early palaeozoic nautiloids. <em>Geobios.</em> 45(1): 19-28., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geobios.2011.11.015
page(s): Supplementary materials, p. 7 [details]
From editor or global species database
Nomenclature note The genus is named after River Talass in Kyrgyzstan, where the type species was found [details]
