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Sellanarcestes certus

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Anarcestidae

Taxonomy
Sellanarcestes certus was named by Chlupac and Turek (1983). Its type specimen is CM L17787, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Praha-Hlubocepy (upper Trebotov limestone, Dalejan), which is in an Emsian carbonate limestone in the Trebotov Formation of Czechia.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
S. wenckenbachi

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1983Sellanarcestes certus Chlupac and Turek p. 81 figs. Pl 21, figs 14-19; pl 29, figs 1,3; text-fig 16
1987Sellanarcestes certus Göddertz p. 152 figs. Pl 4, figs 3-7; pl 5, fig 1; text-fig 12
2002Sellanarcestes certus Korn and Klug p. 126

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderAmmonitidaHaeckel 1866
orderAgoniatitidaRuzhencev 1957
suborderAnarcestinaMiller and Furnish 1954
superfamilyAnarcestaceaeSteinmann 1890
familyAnarcestidaeSteinmann 1890
genusSellanarcestesSchindewolf 1933
speciescertus

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.

†Sellanarcestes certus Chlupac and Turek 1983
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
partNmeanminimummaximummedians.d.
shell height914.23.8030.515.57.17
shell diameter946.513.595.250.023.7
shell inflation921.26.4042.922.311.2

Composition: aragoniteo
Environment: marinec
Locomotion: fast-movingo
Life habit: nektonico
Diet: carnivoreo
Vision: well-developedc
Created: 2005-10-06 14:38:07
Modified: 2005-10-06 16:38:07
Source: o = order, c = class
References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Kiessling 2003, Kiessling 2004

Age range: Late/Upper Emsian or 399.50000 to 393.47000 Ma

Collections (4 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Devonian - Eifelian419.62 - 387.95Czechia Sellanarcestes certus (12148)
Emsian410.62 - 393.47Algeria Sellanarcestes certus (40363)
Late/Upper Emsian399.5 - 393.47Czechia Sellanarcestes certus (type locality: 172686 181034)