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Ancyloceras tenue

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Ancyloceratidae

Taxonomy
Ancyloceras tenuis was named by d'Orbigny (1850) [This livre of "Prodrome du paléontologie" predates the equivalent livre of “Paléontologie Française”].

It was corrected as Ancyloceras tenue by Douvillé (1916).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
A. urbani, A. varians

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1847Ancyloceras tenuis d'Orbigny p. 586 figs. Pl. 229, Fig. 1-4
1850Ancyloceras tenuis d'Orbigny pp. 297, No. 18 figs. Pl. 229, Fig. 1-4
1916Ancyloceras tenue Douvillé p. 26 figs. Pl. 3, Fig. 10-14

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderAmmonitidaHaeckel 1866
suborderAncyloceratinaWiedmann 1966
superfamilyAncyloceratoidea(Gill 1871)
familyAncyloceratidaeGill 1871
subfamilyAncyloceratinaeGill 1871
genusAncyloceras
speciestenue()

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.

†Ancyloceras tenue d'Orbigny 1850
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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 2004, Kiessling 2003

Age range: Bajocian or 170.90000 to 168.20000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Bajocian170.9 - 168.2Egypt Ancyloceras tenue (170870)