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Vanartinskia asiana

Cephalopoda - Prolecanitida - Medlicottiidae

Taxonomy
Vanartinskia asiana was named by Ruzhentsev (1978). Its type specimen is PIN 3740/97 and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Shor-Bulak-Say River, sample 147/10, Pamir Mountains, which is in an Asselian marine sandstone in the Bazardarian Formation of Tajikistan. It is the type species of Vanartinskia.

It was recombined as Sicanites asiana by Furnish et al. (2009).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1978Vanartinskia asiana Ruzhentsev p. 38 figs. Pl 3, fig 4
2002Vanartinskia asiana Leonova
2009Sicanites asiana Furnish et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderProlecanitidaMiller and Furnish 1954
superfamilyMedlicottioidea(Karpinsky 1889)
familyMedlicottiidae
subfamilySicanitinaeNoetling 1904
genusVanartinskia
speciesasiana

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.

Vanartinskia asiana Ruzhentsev 1978
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: aragoniteo
Environment: marinec
Locomotion: fast-movingo
Life habit: nektonico
Diet: carnivoreo
Vision: well-developedc
Created: 2005-10-06 14:37:20
Modified: 2005-10-06 16:37:20
Source: o = order, c = class
References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Kiessling 2004, Kiessling 2003

Age range: Asselian or 298.90000 to 293.52000 Ma

Collections (2 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Asselian298.9 - 293.52Tajikistan Vanartinskia asiana (102491 type locality: 102495)