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Longobardites parvus

Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Longobarditidae

Taxonomy

Dalmatites parvus was named by Smith (1914). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Divide between Troy Canyon and South Fork of American Canyon, which is in an Illyrian marine limestone in Nevada. It is the type species of Neodalmatites.

It was recombined as Neodalmatites parvus by Spath (1951); it was recombined as Longobardites parvus by Silberling and Nichols (1982), Monnet and Bucher (2005).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

L. kularensis

Synonyms

Dalmatites minutus was named by Smith (1914). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Divide between Troy Canyon and South Fork of American Canyon, which is in an Illyrian marine limestone in Nevada.

It was synonymized subjectively with Longobardites parvus by Silberling and Nichols (1982), Monnet and Bucher (2005).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1914	Dalmatites minutus Smith p. 59 figs. Pl 29, figs 15-21
1914	Dalmatites parvus Smith p. 60 figs. Pl. 30, Figs. 1-2,3-4
1951	Neodalmatites parvus Spath p. 24
1982	Longobardites parvus Silberling and Nichols p. 50 figs. Pl 21, figs 19-25; text-fig 33
2005	Longobardites parvus Monnet and Bucher p. 49 figs. 47, 48; pl 31, figs 1-7

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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	Ceratitida	Hyatt 1884
superfamily	Danubitoidea	()
family	Longobarditidae
subfamily	Longobarditinae
genus	Longobardites
species	parvus	()

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.

†Longobardites parvus Smith 1914

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Invalid names: Dalmatites minutus Smith 1914 [synonym]

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

part	N	mean	minimum	maximum	median	s.d.
shell height	8	11.5	-	-	11.5	-
shell diameter	8	32.9	18.9	67.7	29.4	18.7
shell inflation	8	0.001	-	-	0.001	-

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 Pelsonian to the top of the Illyrian or 244.24000 to 241.46400 Ma

Collections (35 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Pelsonian	244.24 - 243.33	USA (Nevada)	Longobardites parvus (115589)
Illyrian	243.33 - 241.464	USA (Nevada)	Dalmatites parvus, Dalmatites minutus, Longobardites nevadanus (33225) Longobardites parvus (38920 38922 38924 38925 38926 39088 40759 40760 110987 115465 115467 115482 115483 115485 115486 115487 115489 115501 115502 115503 115504 115507 115508 115513 115514 115515 115516 115519 115527 142868 142869 142996 143014)