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Jeletzkytes spedeni

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Scaphitidae

Taxonomy
Jeletzkytes spedeni was named by Landman and Waage (1993). Its type specimen is YPM 27160, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Locality 54, west of Little Eagle, which is in a Maastrichtian marine siliciclastic in the Fox Hills Formation of South Dakota.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
J. plenus, J. spendeni

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1993Jeletzkytes spedeni Landman and Waage p. 129 figs. figs. 92-119

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderAmmonitidaHaeckel 1866
suborderAncyloceratinaWiedmann 1966
superfamilyScaphitoidea(Gill 1871)
familyScaphitidaeGill 1871
subfamilyScaphitinaeGill 1871
genusJeletzkytesRiccardi 1983
speciesspedeni

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.

†Jeletzkytes spedeni Landman and Waage 1993
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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: Late/Upper Maastrichtian or 72.20000 to 66.00000 Ma

Collections (28 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Maastrichtian72.2 - 66.0USA (South Dakota) Jeletzkytes spedeni (88510 88512 178553 178554 178555 type locality: 178560 178562 178569 178571 178575 178599 178600 178601 178602 178603 178604 178605 178606 178607 178608 178609 178610 178611 178612 178613 178636 178638 178641)