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Tornoceras (Tornoceras) clausum

Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Tornoceratidae

Taxonomy
Tornoceras (Tornoceras) clausum was named by Glenister (1958). Its type specimen is CPC 1756, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is BMR RS 190, Bugle Gap, which is in a Frasnian marine horizon in the Virgin Hills Formation of Australia.

It was recombined as Linguatornoceras clausum by Becker et al. (2000), Becker and House (2000), Korn and Klug (2002), Woroncowa-Marcinowska (2006) and Söte et al. (2021).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
T. subundulatum

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1958Tornoceras (Tornoceras) clausum Glenister p. 92 figs. Pl 15, figs 7-9; text-figs 16A,C
2000Linguatornoceras clausum Becker and House figs. Pl 2, figs 9,10; text-fig 7D,E
2002Linguatornoceras clausum Korn and Klug p. 158
2006Linguatornoceras clausum Woroncowa-Marcinowska p. 135 figs. 29A, 32A,B
2021Linguatornoceras clausum Söte et al. p. 257 figs. 8k, 11g-h

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
subclassAmmonoidea()
RankNameAuthor
orderGoniatitidaHyatt 1884
suborderTornoceratinaWedekind 1918
superfamilyTornocerataceaeArthaber 1911
familyTornoceratidaeArthaber 1911
subfamilyTornoceratinaeArthaber 1911
genusTornocerasHyatt 1884
subgenusTornocerasHyatt 1884
speciesclausum

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.

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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: 2005-01-28 02:36:55
Modified: 2005-10-06 16:36:08
Source: o = order, c = class
References: Kiessling 2003, Kiessling 2004

Age range: Late/Upper Frasnian or 379.50000 to 376.10000 Ma

Collections (4 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Frasnian379.5 - 376.1Australia (Western Australia) Tornoceras clausum (170951 170967 type locality: 170974 170975)