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Brightia

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Oppeliidae

Taxonomy
Brightia is a genus. It is not extant.

It was assigned to Hecticoceratinae by Arkell et al. (1957); and to Ammonoidea by Sepkoski (2002).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1957Brightia Arkell et al. p. 277
2002Brightia Sepkoski

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderAmmonitida
suborderHaploceratina
superfamilyHaploceratoidea(Zittel 1884)
familyOppeliidaeBonarelli 1894
subfamilyHecticoceratinaeSpath 1925
genusBrightia

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. †Brightia
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†Brightia brighti Pratt 1841
†Brightia lugeoni Tsytovitch 1911
†Brightia metomphala Bonarelli 1893
†Brightia noizeti Collignon 1959
†Brightia salvadori Parona and Bonarelli 1895
†Brightia sveva Bonarelli 1893
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
partNmeanminimummaximummedians.d.
shell height1314.36.8031.013.27.49
shell diameter1336.819.576.532.018.6
shell inflation1313.68.0031.511.56.98

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 2004, Kiessling 2003

Age range: base of the Early/Lower Callovian to the top of the Early/Lower Oxfordian or 164.70000 to 155.70000 Ma

Collections (33 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Callovian164.7 - 161.2Poland Hecticoceras metomphalum (235869)
Early/Lower Callovian164.7 - 161.2Switzerland B. lugeoni (171556 171650)
Late/Upper Callovian164.7 - 161.2Switzerland B. brighti (171574 171630) B. brighti, B. salvadori (171552) B. brighti, B. sveva, B. salvadori, B. metomphala (171572) B. lugeoni (171565) B. metomphala (171598 171647 171649) B. salvadori (171589) B. sveva (171646)
Late/Upper Callovian164.7 - 161.2France B. salvadori (12265)
Middle Callovian164.7 - 161.2Switzerland B. metomphala (171593) B. salvadori (171592) B. sveva (171645) B. sveva, B. metomphala, B. lugeoni (171605) B. sveva, B. salvadori, B. metomphala, B. lugeoni (171595)
Middle Callovian164.7 - 161.2Iran Hecticoceras metomphalum (68073)
Middle Callovian164.7 - 161.2France B. metomphala (60564) B. scaphitoides (60436) B. sp. (60618) B. sp., B. metomphala (60617) B. tenuinodosum (60543)
Middle Callovian - Late/Upper Callovian164.7 - 161.2Switzerland B. brighti, B. sveva, B. salvadori (171568) B. salvadori (171585 171624)
Early/Lower Oxfordian161.2 - 155.7Switzerland B. brighti, B. sveva, B. salvadori (171566) B. sveva (171602)
Early/Lower Oxfordian161.2 - 155.7France Lunuloceras svevum (12266)
Early/Lower Oxfordian161.2 - 155.7Madagascar B. noizeti (98137 234136)