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Romaniceras (Yubariceras) ornatissimum

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae

Taxonomy
Ammonites ornatissimum was named by Stoliczka (1864). Its type specimen is 174 in the collections of the Geological Survey of India and is a 3D body fossil.

It was corrected as Ammonites ornatissimus by Stoliczka (1864); it was recombined as Romaniceras ornatissimum by Bilotte (2011); it was recombined as Romaniceras (Yubariceras) ornatissimum by Kennedy and Cobban (1988), Barroso-Barcenilla (2004) and Benzaggagh et al. (2017).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
R. deveroide, R. inerme, R. yezoense

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1864Ammonites ornatissimus Stoliczka p. 75 figs. pl. 40, figs 1a–e
1957Yubariceras yubarense Matsumoto et al.
1988Romaniceras (Yubariceras) ornatissimum Kennedy and Cobban p. 602 figs. 5.6-5.8, 6.1,6.2,6.6,6.7
1990Yubariceras yubarense Zaborski p. 570
2004Romaniceras (Yubariceras) ornatissimum Barroso-Barcenilla p. 95
2011Romaniceras ornatissimum Bilotte p. 71 figs. text-fig. 3.
2017Romaniceras (Yubariceras) ornatissimum Benzaggagh et al. p. 113 fig. 6A

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
subclassAmmonoidea()
RankNameAuthor
orderAmmonitida
suborderAmmonitinaHyatt 1889
superfamilyAcanthoceratoidea(de Grossouvre 1894)
familyAcanthoceratidaeGrossouvre 1894
subfamilyEuomphaloceratinae
genusRomanicerasSpath 1923
subgenusYubariceras(Matsumoto 1957)
speciesornatissimum(Stoliczka 1864)

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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Invalid names: Yubariceras yubarense Matsumoto et al. 1957 [synonym]
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 02:27:03
Modified: 2009-10-08 14:14:55
Source: o = order, c = class
References: Kiessling 2003, Kiessling 2004

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Turonian to the top of the Turonian or 93.50000 to 89.80000 Ma

Collections (5 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Turonian93.9 - 89.8Morocco Romaniceras ornatissimum (184448)
Late/Upper Turonian93.5 - 89.3Spain Romaniceras ornatissimum (66962)
Middle Turonian93.5 - 89.3Mexico (Chihuahua) Romaniceras ornatissimum (38966)
Middle Turonian93.5 - 89.3Spain Romaniceras ornatissimum (187018)
Middle Turonian93.5 - 89.3Japan Yubariceras yubarense (69172)