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Eubaculites vagina

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Baculitidae

Taxonomy
Baculites vagina was named by Forbes (1846) [DISTRIBUTION: Maastrichtian; India, southern Africa.]. 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 Eubaculites vagina by Brunnschweiler (1966), Klinger and Kennedy (1993).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1846Baculites vagina Forbes p. 114 figs. pl. 10, figs. 4a-c
1966Eubaculites vagina Brunnschweiler p. 29 figs. Pl 1, fig 7; pl 2, figs 1-14; text-figs 12-14
1993Eubaculites vagina Klinger and Kennedy p. 203

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderAmmonitidaHaeckel 1866
suborderAncyloceratinaWiedmann 1966
superfamilyTurrilitoidea(Gill 1871)
familyBaculitidaeGill 1871
genusEubaculitesSpath 1926
speciesvagina()

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.

†Eubaculites vagina Forbes 1846
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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 2004, Kiessling 2003

Age range: base of the Santonian to the top of the Maastrichtian or 85.70000 to 66.00000 Ma

Collections (10 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Coniacian - Santonian89.8 - 83.6Chile Baculites vagina (83692 83693)
Santonian85.7 - 83.6Antarctica Baculites cazadorianus (83336 83338 83350)
Late/Upper Maastrichtian72.2 - 66.0India Baculites vagina (41428)
Maastrichtian72.2 - 66.0Mexico (Baja California) Baculites vagina (158099)
Maastrichtian72.2 - 66.0South Africa Eubaculites vagina (66072)
Maastrichtian72.2 - 66.0Australia (Western Australia) Eubaculites vagina (82388 82389)