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Otoceras woodwardi

Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Otoceratidae

Taxonomy
Otoceras woodwardi was named by Griesbach (1880). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Shalshal Cliff, Bed 2, Rimkin Paiar, which is in a Griesbachian offshore limestone in India. It is the type species of Otoceras, Otoceras (Otoceras).

It was recombined as Otoceras (Otoceras) woodwardi by Arkell et al. (1957).

Subspecies

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1880Otoceras woodwardi Griesbach p. 106 figs. Pl 1, figs 4,5; pl 2
1880Otoceras woodwardi undatum Griesbach p. 107 figs. Pl 1, fig 5
1897Otoceras draupadi Diener
1897Otoceras undatum Diener
1897Otoceras woodwardi Diener
1897Hungarites (Otoceras) parbati Diener p. 160 figs. Pl 4, fig 1
1897Otoceras clivei Diener p. 161 figs. Pl 3, figs 2,4; pl 5, fig 4; pl 7, fig 17
1897Hungarites (Otoceras) fissisellatum Diener p. 163 figs. Pl 3, fig 3; pl 5, fig 6; pl 6, fig 15
1930Otoceras (Metotoceras) dieneri Spath
1934Otoceras (Metotoceras) dieneri Spath
1934Otoceras clivei Spath
1934Otoceras draupadi Spath
1934Otoceras fissisellatum Spath
1934Otoceras undatum Spath
1934Otoceras woodwardi Spath
1935Otoceras boreale Spath p. 9 figs. Pl 1,figs 1,6; pl 2, figs 2,3; pl 3, figs 1-3; pl 4, fig 1; pl 5, fig 1; pl 6, fig 8
1957Otoceras (Otoceras) woodwardi Arkell et al. p. L132
1958Otoceras indigirense Popov
1961Otoceras boreale Tozer p. 45 figs. Pl 6, figs 1-3; pl 7, figs 1-3; pl 8, figs 1-4
1967Otoceras concavum Tozer p. 15 figs. Pl 1, figs 1-3
1974Otoceras domochotovi Arkhipov
1976Otoceras boreale Bychkov et al.
1976Otoceras latilobatum Wang
1978Otoceras boreale Zakharov figs. Pl 3, figs 1,2
1994Otoceras concavum Tozer p. 54 figs. Pl 1, figs 3a,b
1994Otoceras gracile Tozer p. 54 figs. Pl 1, figs 2a,b
1994Otoceras boreale Tozer p. 55 figs. Pl 1, figs 1a,b; pl 2, figs 1,8
1996Otoceras concavum Dagis et al. p. 87 figs. Pl 41, fig 1
1996Otoceras boreale Dagis et al. p. 88 figs. Pl 41, fig 3
2002Otoceras boreale Zakharov p. 118 figs. 2, 4
2017Otoceras woodwardi Zhang et al. p. 654 fig. 3A,B

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderCeratitidaHyatt 1884
suborderOtoceratinaShevyrev and Ermakova 1979
superfamilyOtoceratoidea(Hyatt 1900)
familyOtoceratidaeHyatt 1900
genusOtoceras
specieswoodwardi

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.

Otoceras woodwardi Griesbach 1880
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Invalid names: Hungarites (Otoceras) fissisellatum Diener 1897 [synonym], Hungarites (Otoceras) parbati Diener 1897 [synonym], Otoceras (Metotoceras) dieneri Spath 1930 [synonym], Otoceras boreale Spath 1935 [synonym], Otoceras clivei Diener 1897 [synonym], Otoceras draupadi Diener 1897 [synonym], Otoceras gracile Tozer 1994 [synonym], Otoceras latilobatum Wang 1976 [synonym], Otoceras woodwardi undatum Griesbach 1880 [invalid subgroup]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
partNmeanminimummaximummedians.d.
shell height3043.413.0118.045.025.3
shell diameter3077.724.5233.779.552.3
shell inflation3010.14.0021.010.05.57

Composition: aragoniteo
Environment: marinec
Locomotion: actively mobileo
Life habit: nektonico
Diet: carnivoreo
Vision: well-developedc
Created: 2005-01-28 02:33:06
Modified: 2005-10-06 16:36:47
Source: o = order, c = class
References: Kiessling 2003, Kiessling 2004

Age range: base of the Changhsingian to the top of the Dienerian or 254.14000 to 249.90000 Ma

Collections (93 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Changhsingian254.14 - 251.902Russian Federation Otoceras gracile (221957)
Changhsingian - Griesbachian254.14 - 250.5Russian Federation (Siberia) Otoceras boreale (48474)
Griesbachian251.902 - 250.5Greenland Otoceras boreale (48037 48059 48061 112747 112752 112761 112763 118502 118524 118525 118617 118680 118681 118682 118683 118702 118708 118744 118757 118759) Otoceras fissisellatum (48123)
Griesbachian251.902 - 250.5USA (Alaska) Otoceras boreale (61954)
Griesbachian251.902 - 250.5Russian Federation (Sakha) Otoceras boreale (206759 206760)
Griesbachian251.902 - 250.5Svalbard and Jan Mayen Otoceras boreale (212072 212073)
Griesbachian251.902 - 250.5Russian Federation Otoceras boreale (107120 127719 187148 187149 187150 187151 187152 187153 187154 187155 187158 221958) Otoceras concavum (107121)
Griesbachian251.902 - 250.5India Otoceras clivei (44025) Otoceras woodwardi (44024 type locality: 110990 110991 110992 110994) Otoceras woodwardi, Hungarites sp. (85463) Otoceras woodwardi, Otoceras clivei (44017 44019) Otoceras woodwardi, Otoceras clivei, Otoceras draupadi, Otoceras undatum, Otoceras fissisellatum (44028) Otoceras woodwardi, Otoceras clivei, Otoceras undatum (44018) Otoceras woodwardi, Otoceras parbati (44026)
Griesbachian251.902 - 250.5China (Xizang) Otoceras latilobatum (73609) Otoceras woodwardi (189585)
Griesbachian251.902 - 250.5India (Kashmir) Otoceras woodwardi (48914 131943 131949)
Griesbachian251.902 - 250.5Canada (Nunavut) Otoceras boreale (47921 47922 47935 47937 47941 47942 47945 47946 47971 47987 47988 47989 61942 61944 98560 98561 137953) Otoceras concavum (47936 47944 47956 47957 47959 47960 47979 47981 47982 47983 47984 47985 47986) Otoceras gracile (47980)
Induan251.902 - 249.9India (Kashmir) Otoceras undatum, Otoceras fissisellatum (215000)
Induan251.902 - 249.9Norway Otoceras boreale (31367)
Induan251.902 - 249.9India Otoceras woodwardi (210992)
Dienerian250.5 - 249.9Greenland Otoceras boreale (196948)