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Perisphinctes (Kranaosphinctes)

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Perisphinctidae

Taxonomy
Kranaosphinctes was named as a genus. It is not extant.

It was reranked as Perisphinctes (Kranaosphinctes) by Schlegelmilch (1994), Parent (2006), Parent et al. (2006), Matsukawa et al. (2008), Sato and Yamada (2014).

It was assigned to Ammonoidea by Sepkoski (2002); and to Perisphinctes by Schlegelmilch (1994), Parent (2006), Parent et al. (2006), Matsukawa et al. (2008), Sato and Yamada (2014).

Subtaxa
Kranaosphinctes (Pachyplanulites), Perisphinctes (Kranaosphinctes) berlieri, Perisphinctes (Kranaosphinctes) gigantoplex, Perisphinctes (Kranaosphinctes) irregularis, Perisphinctes (Kranaosphinctes) matsushimai, Perisphinctes (Kranaosphinctes) nerunaensis, Perisphinctes (Kranaosphinctes) pagri, Perisphinctes (Kranaosphinctes) promiscuus
Species lacking formal opinion data
Kranaosphinctes behieri, Kranaosphinctes behieri, Kranaosphinctes gyrus, Kranaosphinctes kranaus, Kranaosphinctes poissoni, Kranaosphinctes praeevolutus, Kranaosphinctes randrianarivonyi, Kranaosphinctes roedereri, Kranaosphinctes subbullingdonensis, Perisphinctes A, Perisphinctes B, Perisphinctes acer, Perisphinctes africanus, Perisphinctes aguilonensis, Perisphinctes alatus, Perisphinctes albertinus, Perisphinctes alligatus, Perisphinctes andelotensis, Perisphinctes andelotensis, Perisphinctes andium, Perisphinctes anguiculus, Perisphinctes anguinus, Perisphinctes arkelli, Perisphinctes arkelli, Perisphinctes balderus, Perisphinctes borealis, Perisphinctes boweni, Perisphinctes breviceps, Perisphinctes buckmani, Perisphinctes buckmanni, Perisphinctes cautisnigrae, Perisphinctes chirchonensis, Perisphinctes colubrinus, Perisphinctes contiguus, Perisphinctes cotovui, Perisphinctes crassissimus, Perisphinctes crotalinus, Perisphinctes cuneicostatus, Perisphinctes cyrilli, Perisphinctes dacquei, Perisphinctes densecostatus, Perisphinctes dichotomus, Perisphinctes dobrogensis, Perisphinctes dorae, Perisphinctes dorsoplanus, Perisphinctes duongi, Perisphinctes effrenatus, Perisphinctes elizabethae, Perisphinctes episcopalis, Perisphinctes ernesti, Perisphinctes eucostatus, Perisphinctes gottschei, Perisphinctes helenae, Perisphinctes indogermanicus, Perisphinctes koeneni, Perisphinctes kranaus, Perisphinctes kreutzi, Perisphinctes laevipickeringius, Perisphinctes laisinensis, Perisphinctes latilinguatus, Perisphinctes luciae, Perisphinctes luciaeformis, Perisphinctes lucieformis, Perisphinctes mairei-matheyi, Perisphinctes malinowskae, Perisphinctes marnesiae, Perisphinctes maximus, Perisphinctes monteiroi, Perisphinctes multicostatus, Perisphinctes nectobrigensis, Perisphinctes orientalis, Perisphinctes ouatius, Perisphinctes panderi, Perisphinctes panthieri, Perisphinctes patturatensis, Perisphinctes paturratensis, Perisphinctes perplanatus, Perisphinctes pickeringius, Perisphinctes planula, Perisphinctes polygyratus, Perisphinctes polygyratus, Perisphinctes praestenocyclus, Perisphinctes progeron, Perisphinctes prosmiscuus, Perisphinctes pulvinus, Perisphinctes pumilus, Perisphinctes quadratus, Perisphinctes quadratus, Perisphinctes roedereri, Perisphinctes rotoides, Perisphinctes sayni, Perisphinctes scythicus, Perisphinctes siemiradzkii, Perisphinctes siemirazkii, Perisphinctes siliceus, Perisphinctes spathi, Perisphinctes strumatus, Perisphinctes sutneri, Perisphinctes torquatus, Perisphinctes transatlanticus, Perisphinctes trichoplocus, Perisphinctes trichoplocus, Perisphinctes uptonensis, Perisphinctes vandellii, Perisphinctes wartaeformis
Sister taxa
Kranaosphinctes (Pachyplanulites)

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1994Perisphinctes (Kranaosphinctes) Schlegelmilch p. 59
2002Kranaosphinctes Sepkoski
2006Perisphinctes (Kranaosphinctes) Parent p. 37
2006Perisphinctes (Kranaosphinctes) Parent et al. p. 310
2008Perisphinctes (Kranaosphinctes) Matsukawa et al. p. 4
2014Perisphinctes (Kranaosphinctes) Sato and Yamada p. 36

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderAmmonitidaHaeckel 1866
suborderAmmonitinaHyatt 1889
superfamilyPerisphinctoidea(Steinman 1890)
familyPerisphinctidaeSteinmann 1890
subfamilyPerisphinctinaeSteinmann 1890
genusPerisphinctes()
subgenusKranaosphinctes

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.

Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
partNmeanminimummaximummedians.d.
shell height426.817.536.029.29.23
shell diameter495.466.0125.0102.229.5
shell inflation449.135.364.051.513.7

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 19:14:55
Source: o = order, c = class
References: Kiessling 2004, Kiessling 2003

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Oxfordian to the top of the Early/Lower Kimmeridgian or 157.90000 to 152.21000 Ma

Collections (34 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Callovian - Oxfordian165.3 - 154.8India Perisphinctes nerunaensis, Perisphinctes irregularis (68644)
Late/Upper Callovian - Early/Lower Kimmeridgian165.3 - 152.21Russian Federation Pachyplanulites subevolutus (213016)
Late/Upper Callovian - Kimmeridgian165.3 - 149.2Russian Federation Pachyplanulites subevolutus (213017 213018)
Late/Upper Callovian - Tithonian165.3 - 143.1Russian Federation Pachyplanulites subevolutus (213019)
Early/Lower Oxfordian161.5 - 154.8France Perisphinctes crassissimus (12287) Perisphinctes crassissimus, Perisphinctes prosmiscuus, Perisphinctes kranaus (12286) Perisphinctes sayni, Perisphinctes promiscuus (12285)
Early/Lower Oxfordian161.5 - 154.8Poland Perisphinctes promiscuus (235872)
Middle Oxfordian161.5 - 154.8Spain Perisphinctes sp. A (142580)
Middle Oxfordian161.5 - 154.8France Perisphinctes berlieri (12291 12982) Perisphinctes cyrilli (12288)
Middle Oxfordian161.5 - 154.8Argentina (Neuquen) Perisphinctes promiscuus (135768)
Middle Oxfordian161.5 - 154.8Japan Perisphinctes matsushimai (182847 182856)
Middle Oxfordian161.5 - 154.8Germany Perisphinctes sp. (62304)
Middle Oxfordian161.5 - 154.8Argentina Perisphinctes promiscuus (68161)
Oxfordian161.5 - 154.8Madagascar Kranaosphinctes behieri, Pachyplanulites randrianarivonyi, Pachyplanulites praeevolutus, Pachyplanulites nerunaensis, Kranaosphinctes roedereri, Kranaosphinctes poissoni (98213) Kranaosphinctes subbullingdonensis (98190) Pachyplanulites subevolutus (98177) Pachyplanulites subevolutus, Pachyplanulites rabei, Pachyplanulites irregularis (98192)
Oxfordian161.5 - 154.8Spain Kranaosphinctes sp., Kranaosphinctes kranaus (142572) Perisphinctes sp. (67866)
Late/Upper Oxfordian157.9 - 154.8Argentina (Mendoza) Perisphinctes sp. (136711 136713)
Late/Upper Oxfordian157.9 - 154.8Madagascar (Atsimo-Andrefana) Kranaosphinctes gyrus (234149) Kranaosphinctes irregularis (234266) Kranaosphinctes nerunaensis, Kranaosphinctes behieri, Kranaosphinctes poissoni, Kranaosphinctes randrianarivonyi, Kranaosphinctes praeevolutus (234238) Kranaosphinctes rabei (234264) Kranaosphinctes subbullingdonensis (234262)
Late/Upper Oxfordian - Early/Lower Kimmeridgian157.9 - 152.21India (Gujarat) Perisphinctes pagri (234314)
Early/Lower Kimmeridgian154.8 - 152.21Madagascar (Mahajanga) Pachyplanulites irregularis (234290)
Early/Lower Kimmeridgian154.8 - 152.21Madagascar Pachyplanulites irregularis (234281)