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Glyptoxoceras tenuisulcatum

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Diplomoceratidae

Taxonomy
Hamites tenuisulcatus was named by Forbes (1846). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Pondicherry, which is in a Maastrichtian marine sandstone/claystone in the Valudavur Formation of India.

It was recombined as Diplomoceras tenuisulcatum by Summesberger (1979); it was recombined as Glyptoxoceras tenuisulcatum by Kennedy and Henderson (1992).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1846Hamites tenuisulcatus Forbes p. 116 figs. Pl 11, fig 3
1979Diplomoceras tenuisulcatum Summesberger p. 124 figs. Pl 3, fig 21
1992Glyptoxoceras tenuisulcatum Kennedy and Henderson p. 387

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderAmmonitida
suborderAncyloceratinaWiedmann 1966
superfamilyTurrilitoidea(Gill 1871)
familyDiplomoceratidaeSpath 1926
subfamilyDiplomoceratinaeSpath 1926
genusGlyptoxocerasSpath 1925
speciestenuisulcatum()

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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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 2003, Kiessling 2004

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Santonian to the top of the Late/Upper Maastrichtian or 85.80000 to 66.00000 Ma

Collections (3 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Santonian85.8 - 83.5Austria Diplomoceras tenuisulcatum (177758)
Maastrichtian72.1 - 66.0Denmark Glyptoxoceras tenuisulcatum (67404)
Late/Upper Maastrichtian70.6 - 66.0India Hamites tenuisulcatus (type locality: 41428)