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Cymatoceras virgatum

Cephalopoda - Nautilida - Nautilidae

Taxonomy

Nautilus (Cymatoceras) virgatus was named by Spengler (1910). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Odium, beds with Schloenbachia inflata, which is in an Albian marine limestone in India.

It was recombined as Cymatoceras virgatum by Matsumoto et al. (1984).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

C. carllottense, C. neckerianus, C. robustus

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1910	Nautilus (Cymatoceras) virgatus Spengler p. 130 figs. Pl 11, fig 3; pl 12, fig 7c
1984	Cymatoceras virgatum Matsumoto et al. p. 336 figs. Pl 62, fig 1; pl 63, fig 1; pl 64, fig 1

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa
phylum	Mollusca

Rank	Name	Author
class	Cephalopoda	Cuvier 1797
subclass	Nautilia	(Wade 1988)
order	Nautilida	Agassiz 1847
superfamily	Nautiloidea	(de Blainville 1825)
family	Nautilidae	de Blainville 1825
genus	Cymatoceras	Hyatt 1884
species	virgatum	()

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.

†Cymatoceras virgatum Spengler 1910

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Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

part	N	mean	minimum	maximum	median	s.d.
shell height	3	80.3	69.0	90.0	83.5	10.8
shell diameter	3	135.4	119.0	145.0	144.0	14.7
shell inflation	3	0.458	0.001	12.0	8.00	6.11

Composition:

aragoniteo

Environment:

marinec

Locomotion:

actively mobilef

Life habit:

nektonicf

Diet:

carnivoref

Vision:

well-developedc

Created:

2009-09-27 10:10:59

Modified:

2009-09-27 12:10:59

Source: f = family, o = order, c = class

References: Kiessling 2003, Kiessling 2004, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Albian to the top of the Albian or 105.30000 to 100.50000 Ma

Collections (4 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Albian	113.0 - 100.5	Antarctica	Cymatoceras virgatum (83557)
Albian	113.0 - 100.5	Japan	Cymatoceras virgatum (166261 166262)
Late/Upper Albian	105.3 - 99.6	India	Nautilus virgatus (166270)