| Bitaunioceras Temporal range: Permian
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| Subfamily: | Michelinoceratinae
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| Genus: | Bitaunioceras Shimizy & Obata, 1936
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Bitaunioceras is a genus of Permian orthocerids with a gradually expanding, straight, orthodontic shell with straight transverse sutures and a small, subcentral siphuncle with straight tubular orthochromatic necks.
The shell surface of Bitaunioceras has a few, shallow, rounded constrictions and numerous, unequal, prominent transverse wire-like lirae.
Bitaunioceras species have been found in Texas in the United States, Coahuila in Mexico, Sicily, Timor, and the south Urals in Russia.