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Iniskinites evolutus

Cephalopoda - Ammonoida - Sphaeroceratidae

Taxonomy
Iniskinites evolutus was named by Parent (1998). Its type specimen is LPB 229, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Chacay Melehué, bed 0, which is in a Bathonian deep-water shale in the Los Molles Formation of Argentina.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1998Iniskinites evolutus Parent p. 92 figs. 14A, 15A,B

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
subclassColeoideaBather 1888
RankNameAuthor
orderAmmonoida(Haeckel 1866)
orderAmmonitidaHaeckel 1866
suborderAmmonitinaHyatt 1889
superfamilyStephanoceratoidea(Newmayr 1875)
familySphaeroceratidaeBuckman 1920
subfamilyEurycephalitinaeThierry 1976
genusIniskinites
speciesevolutus

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.

Iniskinites evolutus Parent 1998
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
partNmean
shell height141.4
shell diameter194.0
shell inflation121.1

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: Late/Upper Bathonian or 168.20000 to 165.30000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Bathonian168.2 - 165.3Argentina (Neuquen) Iniskinites evolutus (type locality: 158966)