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Tectiretites laxus

Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Reticuloceratidae

Taxonomy
Tectiretites laxus was named by Ruzhentsev and Bogoslovskaya (1978). Its type specimen is PIN 455/46420, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Yamashly River, Bol'shaya Suren River, Sample 3, Southern Urals, Bashkortostan, which is in a Kinderscoutian offshore shelf limestone in the Russian Federation.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1978Tectiretites laxus Ruzhentsev and Bogoslovskaya p. 267 figs. Pl 32, fig 10; pl 33, figs 1-4; text-fig 89c,d

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderGoniatitidaHyatt 1884
suborderGoniatitinaHyatt 1884
superfamilyGastrioceratoidea()
familyReticuloceratidaeLibrovitch 1957
subfamilyReticuloceratinaeLibrovich 1957
genusTectiretitesRuzhencev and Bogoslovskaya 1975
specieslaxus

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.

Tectiretites laxus Ruzhentsev and Bogoslovskaya 1978
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
partNmeanminimummaximummedians.d.
shell height415.97.0036.516.813.2
shell diameter441.420.384.043.028.0
shell inflation414.89.0022.015.85.73

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: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Kinderscoutian321.8 - 321.3Russian Federation Tectiretites laxus (type locality: 67753)