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Prothalassoceras bashkiricum

Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Thalassoceratidae

Taxonomy
Prothalassoceras bashkiricum was named by Ruzhentsev (1950). Its type specimen is PIN 320/5296, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Ika River basin, east of Yuldybaevo (upper Orenburgian), which is in a Gzhelian marine siliciclastic in the Russian Federation.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1950Prothalassoceras bashkiricum Ruzhentsev p. 113 figs. Pl 4, fig 10; text-fig 41
1995Prothalassoceras bashkiricum Bogoslovskaya et al. p. 298 fig. 5.16,5.17,5.20,5.21,10.5

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderGoniatitidaHyatt 1884
suborderGoniatitinaHyatt 1884
superfamilyThalassoceratoidea(Hyatt 1900)
familyThalassoceratidaeHyatt 1900
genusProthalassoceras
speciesbashkiricum

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.

Prothalassoceras bashkiricum Ruzhentsev 1950
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
partNmeanminimummaximummedians.d.
shell height312.2--12.2-
shell diameter314.58.5021.017.26.41
shell inflation30.001--0.001-

Composition: aragoniteo
Environment: marinec
Locomotion: fast-movingo
Life habit: nektonico
Diet: carnivoreo
Vision: well-developedc
Created: 2005-01-28 02:36:55
Modified: 2005-10-06 16:36:08
Source: o = order, c = class
References: Kiessling 2003, Kiessling 2004

Age range: Gzhelian or 303.70000 to 298.90000 Ma

Collections (7 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Gzhelian303.7 - 298.9Kazakhstan Prothalassoceras bashkiricum (81353 81354 172281)
Gzhelian303.7 - 298.9Russian Federation Prothalassoceras bashkiricum (172270 172272 type locality: 172369)
Gzhelian - Asselian303.7 - 293.52Kazakhstan Prothalassoceras bashkiricum (172284)