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Sporadoceras (Sporadoceras) inflexum

Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Sporadoceratidae

Taxonomy

Sporadoceras inflexum was named by Wedekind (1908).

It was recombined as Sporadoceras (Sporadoceras) inflexum by Petersen (1975).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

S. angustisellatum, S. brachylobum, S. clarkei, S. contiguum, S. discoidale, S. heterolobatum, S. longilobatum, S. pisum, S. pompeckji, S. semiflexum

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1908	Sporadoceras inflexum Wedekind p. 595 figs. Pl 39, fig 43; pl 42, figs 3,3a
1968	Sporadoceras inflexum Jenkins p. 545 figs. Pl 105, figs 12-14; text-fig 3a,b
1975	Sporadoceras (Sporadoceras) inflexum Petersen p. 45 figs. Pl 5, fig 10; text-fig 24A

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa
phylum	Mollusca
class	Cephalopoda	Cuvier 1797
subclass	Ammonoidea	()

Rank	Name	Author
order	Goniatitida	Hyatt 1884
suborder	Tornoceratina	Wedekind 1918
superfamily	Praeglyphioceratoidea	(Ruzhencev 1957)
family	Sporadoceratidae	Miller and Furnish 1957
subfamily	Sporadoceratinae	Miller and Furnish 1957
genus	Sporadoceras	Hyatt 1884
subgenus	Sporadoceras	Hyatt 1884
species	inflexum	(Wedekind 1908)

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.

†Sporadoceras (Sporadoceras) inflexum Wedekind 1908

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Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

part	N	mean	minimum	maximum	median	s.d.
shell height	2	19.4	16.0	23.5	19.8	5.30
shell diameter	2	44.0	42.3	45.8	44.0	2.47
shell inflation	2	0.001	0.001	0.001	0.001	-

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: base of the Middle Famennian to the top of the Late/Upper Famennian or 368.50000 to 358.86000 Ma

Collections (3 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Famennian	372.15 - 358.86	Australia (New South Wales)	Sporadoceras inflexum (69306)
Middle Famennian	368.5 - 365.2	Australia (Western Australia)	Sporadoceras inflexum (39111)
Late/Upper Famennian	365.2 - 358.86	Kazakhstan	Sporadoceras inflexum (172165)