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Verneuilites keyserlingi

Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Reticuloceratidae

Taxonomy
Verneuilites keyserlingi was named by Ruzhentsev and Bogoslovskaya (1978). Its type specimen is PIN 455/42370, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Shartym River, collection L. S. Librovitch, Southern Urals, Chelyabinsk, which is in a Marsdenian offshore shelf limestone in the Russian Federation.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1978Verneuilites keyserlingi Ruzhentsev and Bogoslovskaya p. 236 figs. Pl 25, figs 1-3; text-fig 71a

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderGoniatitidaHyatt 1884
suborderGoniatitinaHyatt 1884
superfamilyGastrioceratoidea()
familyReticuloceratidaeLibrovitch 1957
subfamilySurenitinae(Ruzhencev and Bogoslovskaya 1975)
genusVerneuilites(Librovitch 1939)
specieskeyserlingi

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.

Verneuilites keyserlingi Ruzhentsev and Bogoslovskaya 1978
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
partNmeanminimummaximummedians.d.
shell height311.48.3014.612.23.18
shell diameter327.521.434.028.56.32
shell inflation37.296.807.807.300.500

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: Marsdenian or 321.30000 to 320.00000 Ma

Collections (3 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Marsdenian321.3 - 320.0Russian Federation Verneuilites keyserlingi (67772 67773 type locality: 68194)