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Daraelites elegans

Cephalopoda - Prolecanitida - Daraelitidae

Taxonomy
Daraelites elegans was named by Tchernow (1907). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Usva River, below Navisshiy, which is in an Artinskian marine horizon in the Russian Federation.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1907Daraelites elegans Tchernow p. 374 figs. Pl 1, fig 9
1956Daraelites elegans Ruzhentsev p. 80 figs. Pl 1, figs 1,2
2002Daraelites elegans Leonova
2017Daraelites elegans Zhou p. 19 figs. 10.1-10.6, 11.5

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
RankNameAuthor
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderProlecanitidaMiller and Furnish 1954
superfamilyProlecanitoidea()
familyDaraelitidae
genusDaraelites
specieselegans

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.

†Daraelites elegans Tchernow 1907
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
partNmeanminimummaximummedians.d.
shell height68.496.0013.87.404.16
shell diameter619.111.033.519.39.12
shell inflation64.533.407.003.901.95

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: Artinskian or 290.10000 to 279.30000 Ma

Collections (18 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Artinskian290.1 - 279.3Kazakhstan (Aqtobe) Daraelites elegans (125130 125132)
Artinskian290.1 - 279.3Russian Federation (Bashkortostan) Daraelites elegans (125108 125121)
Artinskian290.1 - 279.3Russian Federation Daraelites elegans (111239 116790 116797 type locality: 125105 125128)
Artinskian290.1 - 279.3China (Guangxi) Daraelites elegans (185586)
Artinskian290.1 - 279.3Russian Federation (Orenburg) Daraelites elegans (125109 125110)
Artinskian290.1 - 279.3China (Guizhou) Daraelites elegans (185542)
Artinskian290.1 - 279.3Kazakhstan Daraelites elegans (102148 117790 125114 125116 125117)