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Episageceras boulei

Cephalopoda - Prolecanitida - Medlicottiidae

Taxonomy
Episageceras boulei was named by Vaillant-Couturier Treat (1933). It is not a trace fossil. Its type locality is Ankitokazo, which is in a Wuchiapingian coastal mudstone in the Lower Sakamena Formation of Madagascar.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1933Episageceras boulei Vaillant-Couturier Treat p. 30 figs. Pl 3, figs 1,1a,2-2b
2002Episageceras boulei Leonova

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderProlecanitidaMiller and Furnish 1954
superfamilyMedlicottioidea(Karpinsky 1889)
familyMedlicottiidae
subfamilyEpisageceratinae(Ruzhencev 1956)
genusEpisagecerasNoetling 1904
speciesboulei

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.

†Episageceras boulei Vaillant-Couturier Treat 1933
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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: 2005-10-06 14:37:20
Modified: 2005-10-06 16:37:20
Source: o = order, c = class
References: Kiessling 2004, Kiessling 2003, Aberhan et al. 2004

Age range: Wuchiapingian or 259.51000 to 254.14000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Wuchiapingian259.51 - 254.14Madagascar (Diana) Episageceras boulei (type locality: 81987)