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Aenigmatoceras rhipaeum

Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Cravenoceratidae

Taxonomy
Aenigmatoceras rhipaeum was named by Ruzhentsev and Bogoslovskaya (1978). Its type specimen is PIN 455/36120, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Akberda River, Sample 3, Southern Urals, Bashkortostan, which is in a Kinderscoutian offshore shelf limestone in the Russian Federation. It is the type species of Aenigmatoceras.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1978Aenigmatoceras rhipaeum Ruzhentsev and Bogoslovskaya p. 144 figs. Pl 3, figs 6-9; text-fig 13

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderGoniatitidaHyatt 1884
suborderGoniatitinaHyatt 1884
superfamilyNeoglyphioceratoidea(Plummer and Scott 1937)
familyCravenoceratidaeRuzhencev 1957
subfamilyCravenoceratinaeRuzhencev 1957
genusAenigmatoceras
speciesrhipaeum

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.

Aenigmatoceras rhipaeum Ruzhentsev and Bogoslovskaya 1978
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
partNmeanminimummaximummedians.d.
shell height55.794.408.005.501.52
shell diameter513.910.519.413.53.51
shell inflation53.302.105.003.301.03

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 2004, Kiessling 2003

Age range: Kinderscoutian or 321.80000 to 321.30000 Ma

Collections (15 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Kinderscoutian321.8 - 321.3Russian Federation Aenigmatoceras rhipaeum (67721 67725 67740 67741 67747 67748 type locality: 67749 67753 67759 67762 67764 67767 67768 67769)
Kinderscoutian321.8 - 321.3Uzbekistan Aenigmatoceras rhipaeum (68198)