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Uddenites schucherti

Cephalopoda - Prolecanitida - Medlicottiidae

Taxonomy
Uddenites schucherti was named by Böse (1919). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Wolf Camp, Glass Mountains, which is in a Gzhelian carbonate limestone in the Gaptank Formation of Texas. It is the type species of Uddenites.

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1919Uddenites schucherti Böse p. 60 figs. Pl 1, figs 9-23
1919Uddenites minor Böse p. 63 figs. Pl 1, figs 24-40
1937Uddenites schucherti Plummer and Scott p. 67 figs. Pl 3, figs 1-10; text-fig 16

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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
subfamilyUddenitinae
genusUddenites
speciesschucherti

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.

Uddenites schucherti Böse 1919
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Invalid names: Uddenites minor Böse 1919 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
partNmeanminimummaximummedians.d.
shell height55.092.609.004.702.53
shell diameter511.28.5015.010.02.86
shell inflation52.801.803.703.000.723

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 2003, Kiessling 2004

Age range: Gzhelian or 303.70000 to 298.90000 Ma

Collections (7 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Gzhelian303.7 - 298.9USA (Texas) Uddenites schucherti (43455 43483 128581 128582 128583 128584) Uddenites schucherti, Uddenites minor (type locality: 128585)