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Neosilesites

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Silesitidae

Taxonomy
Neosilesites is a genus. It is not extant.

It was assigned to Ammonoidea by Sepkoski (2002); and to Silesitidae by Wright et al. (1996) and Szives (2007).

Species

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1996Neosilesites Wright et al. p. 83
2002Neosilesites Sepkoski
2007Neosilesites Szives p. 57
2009Neposiella Kiessling

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
RankNameAuthor
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderAmmonitida
suborderAmmonitinaHyatt 1889
superfamilyDesmoceratoidea(Zittel 1895)
familySilesitidaeHyatt 1900
genusNeosilesites

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

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Neosilesites nepos Douvillé 1916
Invalid names: Neposiella [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: aragoniteo
Environment: marinec
Locomotion: fast-movingo
Life habit: nektonico
Diet: carnivoreo
Vision: well-developedc
Created: 2005-01-28 02:27:03
Modified: 2009-10-08 14:14:55
Source: o = order, c = class
References: Kiessling 2004, Kiessling 2003

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Aptian to the top of the Albian or 122.46000 to 100.50000 Ma

Collections (10 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Aptian122.46 - 113.0Antarctica N. sp. (64242)
Albian113.0 - 100.5Madagascar (Mahajanga) N. madagascariensis (86497)
Albian113.0 - 100.5Egypt Silesites nepos (171276)
Albian113.0 - 100.5Madagascar N. ampakabense (98264) N. nepos (98244)
Early/Lower Albian112.03 - 109.0France N. nepos (58888)
Early/Lower Albian112.03 - 109.0Madagascar N. nepos (98231)
Middle Albian109.0 - 105.3Egypt Neposiella nepos (98326)
Late/Upper Albian105.3 - 99.6Egypt Neposiella nepos (98327) Silesites nepos (171277)