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Anadesmoceras strangulatum

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Cleoniceratidae

Taxonomy
Anadesmoceras strangulatum was named by Casey (1954). Its type specimen is BGS Zm 1283, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Wrecclesham, Surrey, Folkestone Beds, which is in an Albian marine horizon in the Folkestone Formation of the United Kingdom. It is the type species of Anadesmoceras.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
A. baylei, A. costatum, A. subblayei, A. tenue

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1954Anadesmoceras strangulatum Casey p. 107 fig. 1.2
1995Anadesmoceras strangulatum Alabushev p. 127 figs. 9D-G

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderAmmonitidaHaeckel 1866
suborderAmmonitinaHyatt 1889
superfamilyAcanthoceratoidea(de Grossouvre 1894)
familyCleoniceratidae()
subfamilyVnigriceratinaeSaveliev 1973
genusAnadesmoceras
speciesstrangulatum

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.

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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
partNmeanminimummaximummedians.d.
shell height434.823.945.036.88.72
shell diameter468.846.091.473.018.8
shell inflation411.47.8013.912.42.67

Composition: aragoniteo
Environment: marinec
Locomotion: fast-movingo
Life habit: nektonico
Diet: carnivoreo
Vision: well-developedc
Created: 2005-01-28 02:27:03
Modified: 2009-10-08 14:14:55
Source: o = order, c = class
References: Kiessling 2003, Kiessling 2004

Age range: base of the Early/Lower Albian to the top of the Middle Albian or 113.20000 to 106.30000 Ma

Collections (5 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Albian113.2 - 110.1Denmark Anadesmoceras strangulatum (71077)
Early/Lower Albian113.2 - 110.1Russian Federation Anadesmoceras strangulatum (169549)
Early/Lower Albian113.2 - 110.1United Kingdom (England) Anadesmoceras strangulatum (1847 type locality: 77922)
Middle Albian110.1 - 106.3Russian Federation (Vladimir) Anadesmoceras strangulatum (235282)