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Toxoceratoides starrkingi

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Acrioceratidae

Taxonomy
Acrioceras starrkingi was named by Anderson (1938). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is CAS loc. 1661, a mile west of the Murphy house, Roaring River, which is in a Barremian marine horizon in the Budden Canyon Formation of California.

It was recombined as Ancyloceras (Acrioceras) starrkingi by Jeletzky (1966); it was recombined as Toxoceratoides starrkingi by Murphy (1975) and Klein et al. (2007).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1938Acrioceras starrkingi Anderson p. 207 figs. pl. 59, figs. 4, 4A
1966Ancyloceras (Acrioceras) starrkingi Jeletzky p. 66
1975Toxoceratoides starrkingi Murphy p. 32 figs. Pl. 4, figs. 3 and 5
2007Toxoceratoides starrkingi Klein et al. p. 111

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderAmmonitida
suborderAncyloceratinaWiedmann 1966
superfamilyAncyloceratoidea(Gill 1871)
familyAcrioceratidaeVermeulen 2004
subfamilyHelicancylinaeHyatt 1894
genusToxoceratoidesSpath 1924
speciesstarrkingi()

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.

Toxoceratoides starrkingi Anderson 1938
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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 Barremian to the top of the Late/Upper Barremian or 129.40000 to 125.45000 Ma

Collections (4 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Barremian130.0 - 125.45USA (California) Acrioceras starrkingi (225528)
Barremian129.4 - 125.0Canada (Northwest Territories) Ancyloceras starrkingi (55862)
Barremian129.4 - 125.0Canada (Yukon) Ancyloceras starrkingi (87408 87415)