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Erycites

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Hammatoceratidae

Taxonomy

Erycites was named as a genus. It is not extant.

It was reranked as Hammatoceras (Erycites) by Gemmellaro (1886).

It was assigned to Hammatoceras by Gemmellaro (1886); to Ammonoidea by Sepkoski (2002); and to Erycitinae by Howarth (2013).

Species

E. (Abbasitoides), E. barodiscus (syn. E. exulatus), E. costatus, E. crassiventris, E. fallifax (syn. Ammonites fallax), E. gerecsensis, E. intermedius (syn. E. schafarziki), E. labrosus, E. reussi, E. robustus, E. subquadratus, E. sutneri (syn. E. ovatus)

Species lacking formal opinion data

E. gonionotus, E. howelli, E. mouterdei, E. personatiformis, E. sphaeroconicus, E. telegdirothi

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1886	Hammatoceras (Erycites) Gemmellaro
2002	Erycites Sepkoski
2013	Erycites Howarth p. 111

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa
phylum	Mollusca
class	Cephalopoda	Cuvier 1797

Rank	Name	Author
subclass	Ammonoidea	()
order	Ammonitida
suborder	Ammonitina	Hyatt 1889
superfamily	Hammatoceratoidea	Schindewolf 1964
family	Hammatoceratidae	Buckman 1887
subfamily	Erycitinae	(Spath 1928)
genus	Erycites

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. †Erycites

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Subg. †Erycites (Abbasitoides) Geczy 1966

†Erycites barodiscus Gemmellaro 1886

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Invalid names: Erycites exulatus Callomon and Chandler 1994 [synonym]

†Erycites costatus Merla 1933

†Erycites crassiventris Merla 1934

†Erycites fallifax Arkell 1958

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Invalid names: Ammonites fallax Benecke 1865 [replaced]

†Erycites gerecsensis Kovács and Géczy 2008

†Erycites intermedius Hantken in Prinz 1904

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Invalid names: Erycites schafarziki Prinz 1904 [synonym]

†Erycites labrosus Quenstedt 1886

†Erycites reussi Hauer 1856

†Erycites robustus Merla 1934

†Erycites subquadratus Géczy 1966

†Erycites sutneri Gemmellaro 1886

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Invalid names: Erycites ovatus Géczy 1966 [synonym]

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

part	N	mean	minimum	maximum	median	s.d.
shell height	20	30.3	21.0	37.0	31.0	4.15
shell diameter	20	106.3	68.0	126.0	111.5	14.4
shell inflation	20	49.1	27.0	65.0	52.0	8.67

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 Late/Upper Toarcian to the top of the Late/Upper Aptian or 180.10000 to 113.00000 Ma

Collections (70 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Variabilis	182.0 - 175.6	Hungary	E. costatus (108063 108097 108098) E. intermedius (107910) E. sp. (108478)
Late/Upper Toarcian	180.1 - 175.6	Hungary	E. banffyi, E. ovatus (64305) E. barodiscus (108609 108613 108694) E. ovatus (108646 108648 108649 108650 108691) E. ovatus, E. gerecsensis, E. barodiscus (108611) E. subquadratus (108612)
Late/Upper Toarcian	180.1 - 175.6	Spain (Granada)	E. barodiscus (201311 201312 201357 201374 201379) E. fallifax (201385) E. sp (201380 201382) E. sutneri (201309)
Early/Lower Aalenian	175.6 - 171.6	Spain	E. fallifax (71713)
Early/Lower Aalenian	175.6 - 171.6	Spain (Granada)	E. barodiscus (201313 201314)
Middle Aalenian	175.6 - 171.6	Spain	E. fallifax (131827) E. telegdirothi, E. tenax, E. fallifax (71714) E. tenax (71716)
Murchisonae	175.6 - 171.6	Hungary	E. fallifax (108625 108713) E. intermedius (108714 108716 108717) E. ovatus (108706) E. reussi (108622)
Opalinum	175.6 - 171.6	Germany	E. labrosus (139795)
Opalinum	175.6 - 171.6	United Kingdom	E. barodiscus (141362)
Opalinum	175.6 - 171.6	Spain	E. sp. (131826)
Opalinum	175.6 - 171.6	Hungary	E. barodiscus (108615 108616 108656 108703) E. fallifax (108657 108704 108708) E. intermedius (108654) E. intermedius, E. barodiscus (108653) E. ovatus (108620 108621 108702) E. ovatus, E. fallifax (108655) E. subquadratus, E. barodiscus (108700)
Opalinum	175.6 - 171.6	Iran	E. sphaeroconicus (196963)
Aalenian	174.1 - 170.3	Canada (Yukon)	E. howelli (34187)
Aalenian	174.1 - 170.3	Italy	E. fallifax (198949 198950 198954 198956) E. fallifax, E. intermedius (198955) E. gonionotus, E. fallifax (198945 198946) E. gonionotus, E. fallifax, E. barodiscus (198944)
Aalenian	174.1 - 170.3	United Kingdom	E. intermedius (234765)
Aalenian - Bajocian	174.1 - 168.3	Hungary	E. personatiformis, E. telegdirothi, E. mouterdei, E. baconicus, E. partschi, E. involutus, E. retrorsicostatus, E. szontaghi, E. ovatus, E. fallifax, E. intermedius, E. reussi (64311)
Early/Lower Bajocian	171.6 - 168.4	USA (Alaska)	E. howelli (5488) E. sp. (5489)
Late/Upper Aptian	122.46 - 113.0	Japan (Iwate)	E. barodiscus (142437)