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Kossmatella

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Tetragonitidae

Taxonomy
Kossmatella was named by Jacob (1907) [Sepkoski's age data: K Albi-l K Ceno-l]. Its type is Ammonites agassizianus. It is the type genus of Kossmatellinae.

It was reranked as Lytoceras (Kossmatella) by Böse (1923) and Anderson (1938).

It was assigned to Lytoceras by Böse (1923) and Anderson (1938); to Gaudryceratinae by Wright et al. (1996); to Ammonoidea by Sepkoski (2002); to Kossmatellinae by Szives (2007); to Tetragonitinae by Hoffmann (2010); and to Gaudryceratidae by Kennedy and Klinger (1979) and El Qot (2018).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1907Kossmatella Jacob p. 285
1923Lytoceras (Kossmatella) Böse p. 128
1938Lytoceras (Kossmatella) Anderson p. 151
1979Kossmatella Kennedy and Klinger p. 165
1996Kossmatella Wright et al. p. 6
2002Kossmatella Sepkoski
2007Kossmatella Szives p. 94
2010Kossmatella Hoffmann p. 84
2018Kossmatella El Qot p. 150

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderAmmonitida
suborderAmmonitinaHyatt 1889
superfamilyTetragonitoidea(Hyatt 1900)
familyTetragonitidaeHyatt 1900
subfamilyTetragonitinaeHyatt 1900
genusKossmatellaJacob 1907

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. †Kossmatella Jacob 1907
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Subg. †Kossmatella (Kossmatella) Jacob 1907
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†Kossmatella agassiziana Pictet and Roux 1847
†Kossmatella costata Douvillé 1916
†Kossmatella muhlenbecki Fallot 1885
†Kossmatella romana Wiedmann 1962
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
partNmeanminimummaximummedians.d.
shell height49.858.6012.09.551.46
shell diameter428.023.535.027.44.83
shell inflation410.69.0013.510.21.98

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 Late/Upper Barremian to the top of the Middle Cenomanian or 130.00000 to 93.50000 Ma

Collections (24 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Barremian130.0 - 125.45Italy K. agassiziana (71828)
Late/Upper Aptian122.46 - 113.0Egypt K. sp. (191710)
Albian113.0 - 100.5Madagascar (Mahajanga) K. marut (86497)
Early/Lower Albian112.03 - 109.0Mexico (Coahuila de Zaragoza) K. agassizi (88253)
Early/Lower Albian112.03 - 109.0Dominican Republic K. romana (65128)
Early/Lower Albian - Middle Albian112.03 - 105.3France K. muhlenbecki (13499)
Early/Lower Albian - Late/Upper Albian112.03 - 99.6France K. schindewolfi, K. ventrocincta (57922) K. sp. (58861)
Middle Albian109.0 - 105.3France K. ventrocincta (58422 58633 233804)
Middle Albian - Late/Upper Albian109.0 - 99.6Switzerland K. muhlenbecki (197618)
Late/Upper Albian105.3 - 99.6North Atlantic K. sp. (74359)
Late/Upper Albian105.3 - 99.6France K. agassiziana (58125 58431) K. mulhenbecki (58533) K. oosteri (58527) K. romana (56526) K. sp. (56669) K. sp., K. agassiziana (56680) K. sp., K. mulhenbeckii (57941)
Late/Upper Albian105.3 - 99.6South Africa K. marut (66016) K. romana (66018)
Middle Cenomanian99.6 - 93.5Egypt K. costata (171275)