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Reticuloceras excultum

Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Reticuloceratidae

Taxonomy
Reticuloceras excultum was named by Ruzhentsev and Bogoslovskaya (1978). Its type specimen is PIN 455/46939, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Bol. Suren River, S of Bogdanovskiy, Sample 4, Southern Urals, Bashkortostan, which is in a Kinderscoutian offshore shelf limestone in the Russian Federation.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1978Reticuloceras excultum Ruzhentsev and Bogoslovskaya p. 281 figs. Pl 36, fig 8; text-fig 96b,c

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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
genusReticulocerasBisat 1924
speciesexcultum

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.

Reticuloceras excultum Ruzhentsev and Bogoslovskaya 1978
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
partNmean
shell height18.10
shell diameter116.0
shell inflation12.60

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 Reticuloceras excultum (type locality: 67758)