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Koenenites

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Koenenitidae

Taxonomy
Koenenites was named by Wedekind (1913) [Sepkoski's age data: D Fras-l Sepkoski's reference number: 302,457]. It is not extant. Its type is Goniatites lamellosus. It is the type genus of Koenenitidae.

It was reranked as Hoeninghausia (Koenenites) by Bensaid (1974).

It was assigned to Hoeninghausia by Bensaid (1974); to Gephuroceratidae by Yatskov (1990); to Anarcestida by Sepkoski (2002); and to Koenenitidae by Korn and Klug (2002), Korn (2006).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1913Koenenites Wedekind
1974Hoeninghausia (Koenenites) Bensaid
1990Koenenites Yatskov p. 41
2002Koenenites Korn and Klug p. 118
2002Koenenites Sepkoski
2006Koenenites Korn

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderAmmonitidaHaeckel 1866
orderAgoniatitidaRuzhencev 1957
suborderGephuroceratinaRuzhencev 1957
superfamilyGephurocerataceaeFrech 1897
familyKoenenitidaeBecker and House 1993
genusKoenenitesWedekind 1913

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.

G. †Koenenites Wedekind 1913
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†Koenenites beckeri House and Kirchgasser 2008
†Koenenites cooperi Miller 1938
†Koenenites fasciculatus Clarke 1898
†Koenenites hoeninghausi von Buch 1832
†Koenenites juvenocostata Bensaid 1974
†Koenenites lamellosus Sandberger and Sandberger 1851
†Koenenites styliophilus Clarke 1898
†Koenenites sublamellosus Sandberger and Sandberger 1851
†Koenenites uralensis Bogoslovsky 1969
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
partNmeanminimummaximummedians.d.
shell height418.16.3031.023.911.4
shell diameter439.315.462.050.520.9
shell inflation48.265.8010.58.752.00

Composition: aragoniteo
Environment: marinec
Locomotion: fast-movingo
Life habit: nektonico
Diet: carnivoreo
Vision: well-developedc
Created: 2005-10-06 14:38:07
Modified: 2005-10-06 16:38:07
Source: o = order, c = class
References: Kiessling 2003, Kiessling 2004, Aberhan et al. 2004

Age range: base of the Givetian to the top of the Early/Lower Frasnian or 387.95000 to 379.00000 Ma

Collections (24 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Givetian387.95 - 382.31Algeria K. juvenocostata (40453 40454) K. sp. (40450)
Givetian387.95 - 382.31USA (New York) K. cooperi (76166)
Early/Lower Frasnian382.31 - 379.0Russian Federation (Perm) K. uralensis (172092)
Early/Lower Frasnian382.31 - 379.0Russian Federation (Komi Republic) K. uralensis (172093 172094 172096)
Early/Lower Frasnian382.31 - 379.0Australia (Western Australia) K. sp. (39039 39043)
Early/Lower Frasnian382.31 - 379.0Poland K. sp. (73157)
Early/Lower Frasnian382.31 - 379.0USA (New York) K. beckeri (136058 136060 136084 136127 136198 136208 136209 136210) K. beckeri, K. fasciculatus (136197) K. fasciculatus (136059 136085) K. sp. (136083) Manticoceras styliophilum (157598)